... As we wait for the bill, we finally get round to the subject of Iran. Bolton finishes with a flourish, confidently predicting that George W. Bush will launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities before leaving office.
He can’t resist one last European dig. “Four years of European diplomacy have given the Iranians the one asset they could not have purchased – and that was time,” he says, wagging his finger. “And now, irony of ironies, after fiddling around with all this futile diplomacy, we finally have a French president who sounds just like we do on Iran.” C’est la guerre, I think. A sobering conclusion to a sober Anglo-Saxon meal.
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
John Bolton: Bush Will Bomb Iran
John Bolton made his prediction at a lunch with Financial Times Washington bureau chief Edward Luce: