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Titolo: Why Do They Hate Us? Start With John Bolton

Why Do They Hate Us? Start With John Bolton
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 in News, Neocons by Jim Lobe| 
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Does former UN Amb. John Bolton – now with the neoconservative American
Enterprise Institute (AEI) — still speak for Dick Cheney?
The new British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown must be
scratching its collective head over that question given the truly
unbelievably arrogant and threatening op-ed Bolton, a Cheney protege,
published in Wednesday’s Financial Times.
The column’s title, “Britain Cannot Have Two Best Friends,” refers to what
Bolton calls “a clear decision point” for Britain — to choose between the
United States and the European Union or, as he refers to it, the “European
porridge” of which he so clearly disapproves. For Bolton, it is a zero-sum
game, and, in his view, it is now up to Brown to make the choice.
“[W]hether the ‘special relationship’ grows stronger or weaker lies
entirely in British hands,” he states.
The catalyst for Bolton’s outburst appears to have been Brown’s statement
during his visit with Bush last week that Britain’s “single most important
bilateral relationship” is with the U.S. The only U.S. ambassador to the
UN never to have been confirmed by the U.S. Senate – despite repeated
attempts – calls that characterization a “clever but meaningless dodge.
“Drop the word ‘bilateral’. What is Britain’s most important
‘relationship’? Does Mr. Brown regard the EU as a ‘state under
construction’, as some EU supporters proclaim, or not?
The answers to these questions are what Washington really needs to know.
What London needs to know is that its answer will have
consequences.”[Emphasis added]
For example, Bolton goes on, Britain’s absorption into the European
porridge raises questions about whether it (as well as Sarkozy’s France)
should still be entitled to a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
“Of course the Security Council permanent seat is not the real issue – it
is the question of whether Britain still has sovereignty over its foreign
policy or whether it has simply taken its assigned place in the EU food
chain.”
“Consider also the US-UK intelligence relationship. Fundamental to that
relationship is that pooled intelligence is not shared with others without
mutual consent. Tension immediately arises in EU circles, however, when
Britain advocates policies based on intelligence [such as Saddam’s uranium
purchases from Niger, for example?] that other EU members do not have. How
tempting it must already be to British diplomats to ‘very privately’
reveal what they know to European colleagues. How does Mr. Brown feel
about sharing US intelligence with other Europeans?”
“Finally there is Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, which will prove in
the long run more important for both countries than the current turmoil in
Iraq. Here the US has followed the EU lead in a failed diplomatic effort
to dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons. If Mr. Bush decides that
the only way to stop Iran is to use military force, where will Mr Brown
come down? Supporting the US or allowing Iran to goose-step towards
nuclear weapons?”[Emphasis added]
Bolton’s coda displays the kind of diplomacy for which he became widely
despised throughout the UN during his ruinous tenure there. “I will wait
for answers to these and other questions before I draw conclusions about
‘the special relationship’ under Mr. Brown,” he harrumphs. “But not
forever.” At least, he didn’t use the royal “We.”
Still, one must positively wonder at the tone, content, and not least the
intent of Bolton’s utterly offensive bloviation. Is he trying to provoke
Brown into proving his independence from Washington? Is he trying to drive
the new prime minister closer to his former UN nemesis, Mark Malloch
Brown, as part of some bizarre masochistic compulsion? Is he trying to
create even more anti-American feeling in Britain and “Eurabia,” as some
of his Anglo-chauvinist friends refer to Western Europe these days? Is he
trying to split the West? Does he actually work for bin Laden? (Is AEI an
al-Qaeda sleeper cell?) And does Bolton still speak for Cheney? 
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