Bolton on humanitarian intervention: ‘Do it with your own sons and daughters, not with mine.’
Bolton on humanitarian intervention: ‘Do it with your own sons and daughters, not with mine.’
Earlier this month, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto hosted the second in a series of so-called “Munk Debates” on public policy. This particular debate asked the participants if the international community should intervene in man-made humanitarian crises if the national governments involved fail to act. International Crisis Group CEO Gareth Evans and actor/activist Mia Farrow said the international community should intervene, arguing it has a “responsibility to protect.” However, former Bush administration war hawk John Bolton and Canadian military General Rick Hillier argued against. Bolton, in particular, offered some callous advice to those in favor of humanitarian intervention:
BOLTON: Now I recognize, that the motives of those who advocate responsibility to protect is well intentioned and I respect those who believe in it as a doctrine and I would simply say this to all of you and I say it to you with respect. If you want to engage in humanitarian intervention, do it with your own sons and daughters, not with mine.
Listen here:
Of course Bolton is a staunch supporter of the Iraq war and has spent the better part of the last year calling for one with Iran. Presumably he would have no problem sending his children to fight there.
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Too easy.
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:33 pmI certainly hope Bolten’s children are never in need of any humanitarian intervention. Those damn humanitarians may just have the audacity to help them!!!
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:36 pmBolton can send his kids into war — as if that’s gonna happen!
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:37 pmHey Bolton, send your OWN spawn to fight, along with your OWN evil ass. Leave me, and my kin the fcuk out of your wars.
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pmBolton: “If you want to engage in humanitarian intervention, do it with your own sons and daughters, not with mine.”
Couldn’t one make the same argument regarding military intervention?
Oh, wait — that’s logical, so it would only work on someone who is capable of recognizing and processing logical concepts. That obviously leaves out Bolt-on.
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pmNeocons–and right-wingers in general–just don’t get that “for whom the bell tolls” stuff. The whole idea of the connectedness of people irritates them. They are unclear on the concept and proud of it. No wonder they screwed up the government.
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 pmwhy is it everytime i think of or see a picture of john bolton, I want a bucket of chicken, extra crispy?
one can infer bolton will not send his kids on humanitarian efforts which begs the question: when will his useless sperm be touching down in baghdad?
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:46 pmHe wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.”[6] In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because “by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam war had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from.”
i <3 wikipedia
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pmWho!?
Doesn’t even warrant a response.
RIP
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
“Bolton on humanitarian intervention”
Is it still OK to burn witches at the stake?
Bush/Cheney -Nuremburg ‘09
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:54 pmIf you want to engage in humanitarian intervention, do it with your own sons and daughters, not with mine.
Yeah! Drop bombs, not food!
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:56 pmYes Bolton wouldn’t allow his daughter as he doesn’t have a son. Like Bush skipped out of Vietnam, Cheney the coward’s famous 5 deferments Bolton in his own words “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.” Now this is way Bolton is in good company with the GOP and White House.
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm“compassionate conservatism” at it’s finest. these clowns didn’t waste any time dropping that charade one they were elected.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 pmspoken like a true draft dodger . . . isn’t the Iraq War now just a humanitarian exercise . . . oh, but he conceived it, so it’s WAR for the common good, the defense of democracy, right and might. Whatever . . ..
Not with my tax dollars, with yours.
Not with my property, with yours.
Not me, you.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:05 pmOf COURSE he wouldnt sacrifice HIS children to a war he advocates any more than Barb and Jenna went to Iraq. Sacrifices are for the little people. Our betters dont MAKE sacrifices they just demand them of others. Even though the benifits OF those sacrifices accrue to the powerful not those called on to MAKE the sacrifices. Its such an old story
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:05 pmFormer Canadian General Roméo Dallaire would highly disagree with the current Canadian General Rick Hillier. Roméo was greatly affected by Rwanda and testified extensively in war crimes trial. Bolton and Hillier seems to ignore that humanitarian efforts require proper planning and Rwanda was NOT done with the required urgency. Seems odd for Hillier to agree with Bolton given how the the war in Afghanistan has gone.
Just wanted to let you all know that Hillier does not speak for all Canadians, just like Bolton doesn’t speak for Americans.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:08 pmWar Yes! Humans No! Way to Go Bolt-On, teach your children well. Not.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:11 pmNIMBY-pamby Bolton.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:17 pmSend your own sons and daughters to your oil wars, Neo-cons…Do it with your own sons and daughters, not with ours…
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 pmWhat a horrible little man he is…
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 pmScrew that…send his sorry ass instead, every last one of the neocon pieces of shit.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 pmWhy does anyone having anything to do with the UN invite Bolton to speak. The world knows how he feels about the UN and about how the UN feels about him.
I’m sure that Bolton would also like us to fight wars without his children.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:49 pmBush children serving in Iraq: 0
Cheney children serving in Iraq: 0
Bolton children serving in Iraq: 0
Any questions?
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:13 pmpaleolib; add this:
Bush during Vietnam-DESERTION!
Cheney during Vietnam: 5 deferments
Bolton during Vietnam: deferred.
Any questions?
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 pmJohn Bolton is as much a simpleton as any of the other republican, GOP, neocon simpletons. He professes to be against humanitarian intervention when he supported the Iraq war of choice as a humanitarian intervention to depose that SOB Saddam Hussein.
Would someone put a pillow over Bolton’s face and suffocate him before he says another stupid, ignorant, atagonistic word.
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:24 pmSorry, but it’s simply impossible to be that cluelessly unaware of the irony of his own statement and be sane at the same time. Bolton is insane.
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:36 pmToo bad this dumb jackass didn’t have any children that lived!
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:40 pmI would renounce him as my father for certain.
Thank you john bolton, you stupid, arrogant, little prick.
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 pmBolton has a daughter, Jennifer, I think. She shares many regressive genes from both her parents.
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pmHe could have saved some time by just saying “I am an evil person.”
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:37 pmKilling people good. Helping people bad. Is that what this asswipe is saying? What’s even scarier is (1) that he is or was ever married, and (2) that he reproduced.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 pm.
Dear Mr. Bolton,
Then please build yourself an alter and slay your son upon it…
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December 23rd, 2008 at 1:20 amJohn Bolton. Jude.
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm