"John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" (UPDATE)

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"John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" (UPDATE)

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"John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" (UPDATE)

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"John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" (UPDATE)

CNSNews:

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of
two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

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"John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" (UPDATE)

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"John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" (UPDATE)

CNSNews:

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of
two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton
to the U.N. post, forcing President Bush to resort to a recess
appointment.

Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden’s
former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in
exposing Iran’s secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.

And, of course, for a mustache that—in a fit of twitchy bravado and
finger-strumming impatience—once sweated a Syrian diplomat into
literally crapping his Italian silk pants.

John—and especially Regis, his straight-talking mustache—deserves the
honor, if for nothing more than bringing some decidedly manly, agressive
attributes back to the peace process. Because let’s face it: you can’t
sip aperitifs and talk your way out of every crisis, no matter how much
the left insists that the pen is mightier than the sword (even while
they try to jam it into your spine the moment you shake hands and turn
your back).

The point being that sometimes you just have cry freedom and let slip
the bristling lip marmot of war, and let the guy on the other side of
the table know that—should push come to shove—you’re willing to set that
thing loose on him like Pinky the cat on the exposed jewels of a
disingenuous animal control huckster trying to pass off feral for
cuddly.

And here’s more, from the WSJ (subscription only):

Kenneth Timmerman has for 20 years exposed Iran’s nuclear
intentions. In books, reports, speeches, articles and private meetings
he has told us of specific detail as well as the big picture — a full-
fledged, official plan to game the system of international safeguards.
His latest book, “Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with
Iran,” lays this out in chilling detail; and it was his report for the
Wiesenthal Center in 1992 that first detailed Iran’s ties to Pakistani
nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan.

John Bolton, former undersecretary of state, has with unusual energy
tried to find ways to counter this threat. Friends and foes agree — he
never gives up. He has repeatedly underlined the threat of Iran pursuing
two paths to nuclear weapons: One is the use of highly enriched uranium,
achieved by thousands of centrifuges, which Iran has developed and
tested. A large buried facility at Natanz is intended to house up to
50,000 centrifuges. Iran resumed activities there just four weeks ago
(in direct defiance of the IAEA). The second is through plutonium. Mr.
Bolton knows that a heavy-water production plant and the Bushehr light-
water reactor can be exploited as cover for sensitive nuclear fuel cycle
activities. He says another “unmistakable indicator” of nuclear
intentions is Iran’s habit of “repeatedly lying to and providing false
reports to the IAEA.”

The danger is even more serious as Iran is a leading sponsor of
terrorism. Mr. Bolton, now U.S. ambassador to the U.N., is also a father
of the Proliferation Security Initiative, an international effort to
interdict shipments of WMD components, materials and the ballistic
missiles needed to deliver them. Thanks to this PSI, the U.S. and others
managed to seize centrifuge components en route to Libya in 2003. This
led to the breakup of the network of A.Q. Khan, mastermind of the
proliferation business in recent years.

European leaders have become a bit more active than before when
supporting united efforts to prevent Iran from going nuclear. But there
is still a sense of wishful thinking around them. Don’t they understand
that Iran’s messianic President Ahmadinejad is serious when he says
“wipe Israel off the map”? Appeasing fanatics does not work. We have
learned that already in the last century. The work of John Bolton and
Kenneth Timmerman provide stark reminders of that most important lesson
of history.

—And exposes yet again the hyperpartisan nature of our own political
left, who blocked Bolton’s appointment after insisting he would destroy
the very fabric of diplomacy we as a civilization have spent years
stitching together—largely as a way to drape over many of the world’s
outrages in the happy and colorful patterns of a Benetton sarong…

(thanks to Dave Price; more from Bryan Preston)

update: Thanks also to Colossus, who points me to Reynolds’ quip: “Not
bad for a guy who couldn’t get confirmed. . . .”

Of course, prepare yourself for the immediate reminder from some of the
gotcha crowd on left about how “wingnuts” have expended enormous energy
discrediting the Nobel Peace Prize by pointing to some recent
recipients—from terror mastermind Yasser Arafat to terror apologist and
would-be uber-nannystatist Jimmy Carter.

The response to such a predictable AHA! should be this: Nobody ever
said the committee couldn’t reverse course and maybe begin rewarding
deserving nominees again.

Who knows? Maybe all it took was 5 years of Bush’s insistence on the
righteousness of the liberal democratic message to remind the world that
being sweet-talked by oily despots and their enablers is not the same as
bearing witness to the promotion of “peace.”

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"John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" (UPDATE)

CNSNews:

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of
two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton
to the U.N. post, forcing President Bush to resort to a recess
appointment.

Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden’s
former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in
exposing Iran’s secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.

And, of course, for a mustache that—in a fit of twitchy bravado and
finger-strumming impatience—once sweated a Syrian diplomat into
literally crapping his Italian silk pants.

John—and especially Regis, his straight-talking mustache—deserves the
honor, if for nothing more than bringing some decidedly manly, agressive
attributes back to the peace process. Because let’s face it: you can’t
sip aperitifs and talk your way out of every crisis, no matter how much
the left insists that the pen is mightier than the sword (even while
they try to jam it into your spine the moment you shake hands and turn
your back).

The point being that sometimes you just have cry freedom and let slip
the bristling lip marmot of war, and let the guy on the other side of
the table know that—should push come to shove—you’re willing to set that
thing loose on him like Pinky the cat on the exposed jewels of a
disingenuous animal control huckster trying to pass off feral for
cuddly.

And here’s more, from the WSJ (subscription only):

Kenneth Timmerman has for 20 years exposed Iran’s nuclear
intentions. In books, reports, speeches, articles and private meetings
he has told us of specific detail as well as the big picture — a full-
fledged, official plan to game the system of international safeguards.
His latest book, “Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with
Iran,” lays this out in chilling detail; and it was his report for the
Wiesenthal Center in 1992 that first detailed Iran’s ties to Pakistani
nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan.

John Bolton, former undersecretary of state, has with unusual energy
tried to find ways to counter this threat. Friends and foes agree — he
never gives up. He has repeatedly underlined the threat of Iran pursuing
two paths to nuclear weapons: One is the use of highly enriched uranium,
achieved by thousands of centrifuges, which Iran has developed and
tested. A large buried facility at Natanz is intended to house up to
50,000 centrifuges. Iran resumed activities there just four weeks ago
(in direct defiance of the IAEA). The second is through plutonium. Mr.
Bolton knows that a heavy-water production plant and the Bushehr light-
water reactor can be exploited as cover for sensitive nuclear fuel cycle
activities. He says another “unmistakable indicator” of nuclear
intentions is Iran’s habit of “repeatedly lying to and providing false
reports to the IAEA.”

The danger is even more serious as Iran is a leading sponsor of
terrorism. Mr. Bolton, now U.S. ambassador to the U.N., is also a father
of the Proliferation Security Initiative, an international effort to
interdict shipments of WMD components, materials and the ballistic
missiles needed to deliver them. Thanks to this PSI, the U.S. and others
managed to seize centrifuge components en route to Libya in 2003. This
led to the breakup of the network of A.Q. Khan, mastermind of the
proliferation business in recent years.

European leaders have become a bit more active than before when
supporting united efforts to prevent Iran from going nuclear. But there
is still a sense of wishful thinking around them. Don’t they understand
that Iran’s messianic President Ahmadinejad is serious when he says
“wipe Israel off the map”? Appeasing fanatics does not work. We have
learned that already in the last century. The work of John Bolton and
Kenneth Timmerman provide stark reminders of that most important lesson
of history.

—And exposes yet again the hyperpartisan nature of our own political
left, who blocked Bolton’s appointment after insisting he would destroy
the very fabric of diplomacy we as a civilization have spent years
stitching together—largely as a way to drape over many of the world’s
outrages in the happy and colorful patterns of a Benetton sarong…

(thanks to Dave Price; more from Bryan Preston)

update: Thanks also to Colossus, who points me to Reynolds’ quip: “Not
bad for a guy who couldn’t get confirmed. . . .”

Of course, prepare yourself for the immediate reminder from some of the
gotcha crowd on left about how “wingnuts” have expended enormous energy
discrediting the Nobel Peace Prize by pointing to some recent
recipients—from terror mastermind Yasser Arafat to terror apologist and
would-be uber-nannystatist Jimmy Carter.

The response to such a predictable AHA! should be this: Nobody ever
said the committee couldn’t reverse course and maybe begin rewarding
deserving nominees again.

Who knows? Maybe all it took was 5 years of Bush’s insistence on the
righteousness of the liberal democratic message to remind the world that
being sweet-talked by oily despots and their enablers is not the same as
bearing witness to the promotion of “peace.”

[comment thread and links at site]