An Excellent Article on John Bolton From Roland Shirk at Jihad Watch

Roland Shirk says Bolton has "sobered", that he used to, as a Neoconservative, be in the grip of an ideology which was a fantasy.

Me too. I used to believe we could democratize Iraq, and help them out.

All that has gotten us is a country full of Jihadists persecuting and murdering Christians, and killing each other for no reason other than the simple fact that Allah thirsts for human blood.

Every move we have made in the Middle East has made things worse. It's as if the Middle East is an ever-collapsing pit of Quick Sand.

Anyway, before I start to really crank up my thorough disgust for the complete depravity of Islamic culture, let's read what Roland Shirk has to say:

I want to give Bolton credit: It seems he has learned from our mistakes. Sobered, Bolton seems to realize that we can no more implant free constitutions and Anglo-Saxon liberties in the heart of the Dar-al-Islam than we can grow mangoes on the moon. In his new piece for the British magazine Standpoint, Bolton examines the recent events in Egypt, and he sounds like he has abandoned Wilsonian fantasies, and come to stand on solid ground with Metternich—favoring an approach to the Middle East based on prudence, intent on containing the dangerous ideological energies that convulse the Islamic world, in defense of legitimate American interests.

In this case, as Bolton tries to demonstrate, those interests actually converge with the long-term well-being of the region itself. It may sound paternalistic, but I'm long past feeling the least particle of Western guilt about that: In denying the Arab mob what it wants, we can offer it what it needs: a slow introduction into institutional government, with limited representation, for as long as it takes for Islamic countries to prove that they are capable of guaranteeing minority rights and remaining at peace with America and her allies. If they cannot demonstrate those two conditions, we should not support—and indeed, should actively oppose—attempts to hand over power to majorities who allow themselves to be led by Islamic supremacists.

Go read the whole thing.

Roland Shirk sounds as if he believes this paternalistic approach would actually have a positive effect on Muslimis.

I don't think so. I've given up on that idea.

Ann Coulter was right. The only thing that will help Muslims is for us to conquer their lands and convert them to Christianity.

Long live Imperialism.