US Orders Syria to Do the Impossible:The Meddlesome Mr. Bolton

[Judi Lynn]

January 26, 2006

US Orders Syria to Do the Impossible
The Meddlesome Mr. Bolton
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Is there a person anywhere in the world who still thinks there is an ounce of sanity in the Bush administration? If so, let that person read John Bolton's orders to Syria in the January 24 online edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Bolton is Bush's unconfirmed ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, a neoconservative warmonger, has managed to get the UN Security Council on January 23 to instruct Syria to disband and disarm the Lebanese militias. Bolton says, "I hope in Damascus they read it very carefully and then comply."

How is Syria to meet this demand?

Last year Syria complied with US demands to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. As Syria has no military presence in Lebanon, it could not disarm a local police force, much less the Shia militias that defeated the Israeli army and drove it out of Lebanon and that have representatives in the Lebanese parliament.

After three years and unimaginable expense, the superpower American military has proved that it cannot disarm the recently formed Iraqi militias. Yet, the idiot Bolton thinks puny Syria can disarm the Lebanese militias that defeated the brutal Israeli army!
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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01262006.html

[stop the bleeding]

1. unf%&king Amazing n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. bolton completely misread the Iraq situation, so, in the the grand

tradition of the american corporate board room, they gave him more responsibility.

[tn-guy]

3. Wow! Bolton is unbelievable.

So you mean to tell me that Bolton - that bull in a china shop who will alienate everyone - was somehow able to persuade the UN Security Council to call upon Syria to disband and disarm the Lebanese militias? What's up with that?

I thought he was supposed to be a disruptive influence, and now he has convinced the Security Council to do this? And none of the permanent members vetoed it? Something is definitely wrong. I thought the reason everyone opposed Bolton was that he was so antagonistic he would never be able to be an effective voice for the US. And now this. Apparently somebody is missing something.

Could it be that since Syria has equipped and sponsored many of the militia organizations, the UN is now asking that Syria cease to continue the practice? Could Bolton actually be able to accomplish something? ???? ................Naaaaaaah.