John Bolton, George W. Bush’s former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren that we should cut spending on benefits to service members so we can buy more weapons. it’s important to remember a few facts. One, it’s the Republicans who always claim — falsely — that liberals don’t are about our military service members, and two, Bolton once said, before Bush appointed him to the UN, if U.N. headquarters in New York City “lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) during his confirmation hearing, denounced Bolton, calling him “the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be.” He was confirmed, anyway.
Bolton, by the way, is a states’ rights guy on marriage equality, but not in a Rick Perry sort of way.
Message to Ambassador Bolton: Of all the world’s expenditures on the military, the United States spends 43%. For every dollar the entire world spends on their militaries, the U.S spends 43 cents.
Lord knows the Tea Party will like this one:
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
— James Madison, Political Observations, 1795
So, how about we spend more on our service members, less on weapons and waste, and get the hell out of the Middle East, and every other country?
Just a thought, sir.
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