That smacking sound you may have heard this morning was the thick head of John R. “Funny Moustache” Bolton crashing into the combined thick heads of Henry “Moral Bankruptcy” Kissinger and George “I thought he knew better” Shultz. A couple of weeks back Henry and George combined for a stunning exercise in moral evasion in the form of a column in the Washington Post wondering why we weren’t getting along better with our good friends the Russians, who, after all, want the same things that we do, namely the oppression of the weak by the strong.
Big John replied this morning with an equally dishonest effort, claiming that it’s about time we started exercising our god-given right to push everyone around by making a particular example of the Russians. They got a problem with our putting missiles next to their borders? Maybe we should put missiles inside their damn borders!
If you’ve been following Kissinger’s “thought” (aka “deceit”) at all over the past few decades, his column came as a bit of a surprise, because one of the constants of Kissingerism has been his deep dislike and even contempt for Russia, which he has always considered the home of barbarism. But in Putin, apparently, he has at last found a Russian souless enough for him to trust.
John R. at least offers no surprises. America has interests, doesn’t she? And those interests are “legitimate,” aren’t they? Then we should have the right to do whatever we like! QE fuckin’ D!
Afterwords
In a massive breach of net etiquette, I’m not linking to either column. Go morally obtuse on your own time.
