Ambassador John Bolton Predicts Failure in Afghanistan

Human Events' Jason Mattera interviews former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton. Asked about our success in Afghanistan if President Obama insists on pulling troops out on his predetermined timeline he answers: 'We will fail in Afghanistan'.

July 12, 2010 at 7:25 am - Human Events
Dateline: Washington DC
Taguba   July 12th, 2010 - 7:28 am

Why does John hate our troops and continute to call them failures ?? HAs he ever seen the inside of a recruiters office ?? didnt think so. WE all know Mr Bolton hates the troops, this country, and dreams of our failure, but this is rediculous.

Recess appointment bolton ?? fox news skid mark, Bolton ?? LOL sure have a fine credible pereson there LOL LOL

DontTreadOnMe   July 12th, 2010 - 2:40 pm

Obama never had any intention of "winning" anyway. Winning would offend the Muslims.

H2K   July 12th, 2010 - 7:42 am

Yeah, Tag….you probably didn't have a problem with Harry "the war is lost" Reid, did you? John Bolton is a commentator. Harry Reid is the Senate Majority leader.
We won the Iraq war – in no small part to the strategy related to the surge. Thanks Bush, Cheney, and McCain for pushing that strategy.
Obama thinks that we can have the same success in Afghanistan, but in fact, all he has done is escalate the violence and the death of our troops and our ally's troops. He dug himself into this hole by his campaign rhetoric of "Iraq bad, Afghanistan good"….and anyone with a brain knew it was campaign rhetoric. Then to appease the left, he announced a pullout date. You can't have success with these conflicting factors.
Obama is not just evil, he's stupid.

norbit1   July 12th, 2010 - 2:44 pm

Sorry for being off-topic, but I have the TV on, and had to make sure I'm understanding this correctly:

The Democrats definition of FAMILY VALUES is to ban Happy Meals, but pass out free condoms to kindergarteners?

Is that about right? (Actually, I'd say that's about LEFT!!!! – lol!)

DefunctDaRegime   July 12th, 2010 - 7:46 am

Bolton is absolutely correct, if he replaces the "we" with "Obama". Obama fails all that is good and decent. Obama doesn't want to win a war against his allies, Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Obama is sending soldiers to their sacrifice to punish our military and to simply to keep things stirred up with Muslims, all part of his keeping the world in crisis so he can maneuver to what he perceives as a higher power at a world body. Obama is destroying America as proof to the world of his non-allegiance and impartiality to America.

1Ladyliberty   July 12th, 2010 - 2:47 pm

Nothing "LEFT" come November :)

dennisl59   July 12th, 2010 - 7:50 am

The Taliban have planned to make Kandahār into our Stalingrad. History will repeat itself, because Hussein is a delusional suicidal maniac that hates America and wants us to be defeated, blood will be on his hands and he will laugh and laugh, and smile his big wide smile into the cameras of the Government Controlled Media and then ask "how many fingers"?
Wrong answer? Off to the Soylent Green Factories for processing to create Green Energy.

1Ladyliberty   July 12th, 2010 - 2:51 pm

My opinion is when you do not allow our soldiers to engage the enemy….there is no way to win…I say stop playing patty cake with the terrorist, do the job we went there to do & then get out!

DefunctDaRegime   July 12th, 2010 - 2:59 pm

I don't think Bolton sent a hand-tied surge of American troop lives to Afghanistan to be slaughtered by the Obama allies. That was your main man Obama's fine work. If Obama ever saw the inside of a recruiter's office, it was probably scoping out the joint for a robbery or for a bombing by his best friend and mentor William Ayers.

Recess appointment yeah, because the Democraps wouldn't approve a competent, patriotic, foreign-affairs genius, America-loving, White man involved in our foreign affairs, so Bush had to go around them.

John Bolton will make a good President, Vice President, or Secretary of State, and I look forward to him correcting the multitudinous errors and sabotage of the Obama regime, those that can be corrected. America's unnecessary war dead at Obama's incompetent and uncaring hands and the losses felt by their devastated families have no remedy.

DontTreadOnMe   July 12th, 2010 - 3:01 pm

Winning takes leadership. Obama has no leadership skills and he's too arrogant to let anyone else do the job.

Pedrosito48   July 12th, 2010 - 3:02 pm

Hey mussleman take your koran and shove up your largest orafice

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CBrooks1976   July 12th, 2010 - 3:26 pm

HAHAHAHA! I bet you think you make great points.
Much like they way drunks think they're great drivers.

SubjectofUSSA   July 12th, 2010 - 8:28 am

So if we listen to Obama, we lose the war? Who would of thunk it. Much like if we'd listened to Obama or Harry Reid during the Iraq war we would of lost that too.

Let the General do his job, if OBummer insists on pulling out in 12 months despite what the General says, then it will be Obama's lost war.

CBrooks1976   July 12th, 2010 - 3:29 pm

I haven't seem the video you posted but can tell you that if Americans had the ability to separate the massage and the messenger we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now.

rovers   July 12th, 2010 - 3:30 pm

Spot on total destruction death. It is the only means to conduct a war. Screw the collateral damage.

Subsalior   July 12th, 2010 - 3:33 pm

Bolton hits the nail on the head every time…

That's why the lib/wackos don't like him very much…

childofcorn   July 12th, 2010 - 3:34 pm

This is how the Communists ruin a Republic.

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PaulLThompson   July 12th, 2010 - 8:46 am

"Christianity is the greatest threat to Socialism" – Hal Lindsey

This comment is at the end of his comments 7/9/10 http://www.hallindsey.com/

Wake up! This country was founded on Christian principles and we will certainly lose our liberty and freedom
if the spiritually moral foundation of Christian teachings are removed from the public arena. It is a war we need to fight for the next generation, we do not pass this down without teaching it, it does not just naturally flow to our children.

USA_Dad   July 12th, 2010 - 3:56 pm

Our military can crush any enemy but that is not what we are doing. Regrettably the man is right!

skipper99   July 12th, 2010 - 4:00 pm

Clearly the prose, assertions and content of your "post", is spatially limited, due to the extreme lack of your having more than two functioning brain cells.

jdog   July 12th, 2010 - 4:07 pm

I didnt like it when the marxist nutjobs said it and I dont like it when Bolton says it. My concern is that we are not in it to win it. If we are not there to win… then we shouldnt be there.

TexasStomp   July 12th, 2010 - 4:20 pm

ASK PAUL, THE OCTOPUS!

GIVE HIM A US FLAG AND AN AFGHAN FLAG…. SEE WHICH ONE HE PICKS.

HE HAS A HELLUVA LOT BETTER RECORD THAN THE PUNDITS, GENERALS, POLITICIANS, AND DIS GUY.

DefunctDaRegime   July 12th, 2010 - 4:22 pm

Bolton says it as an objective observer in the context of his personal knowledge of liberals running a war (we have history, look into it). The left says it as wishful thinking, fanciful imagination devoid of a knowledge base and lacking concern for America's future.

DGL1962   July 12th, 2010 - 4:27 pm

This is the arrogant know nothing that is cheerleading the prospect of attacking Iran.

TalkingDust   July 12th, 2010 - 4:42 pm

For those who wonder why we're in Afghanistan, Ambassador Bolton, in his usual, terse and specific manner, outlined the objectives as follows:

1. Prevent Taliban/Al-Queda from controlling Afghanistan
2. Prevent political instability in Afgahnistan from spilling over into Pakistan and posing the possibly that Taliban/Al-Queda forces could topple the government and gain control of its nuclear arsenal.

Reaching these objectives is, according to Ambassador Bolton, the definition of "winning." Ambassador Bolton doesn't list de-corrupting the government as an objective.

ronfromflorida   July 12th, 2010 - 4:45 pm

Bolton is an American Hero and Afghanistan has become the war to save the Obama Presidency, young men and woman dying based on Obama's disingenuous campaign rhetoric.
Bush was never fool enough to try and pacify Afghanistan that is a fools erand ,his plan was to deconstruct the axis of evil and if we only had the courage to deal with Iran, then No Korea will fall or capitulate on their own and we might well have a chance at a lasting world peace.

jdog   July 12th, 2010 - 4:51 pm

I like Bolton and thinks he is objective. I think what he was saying is that this is unwinnable with Obama at the helm. I think that is how McChrystal felt. If we arent in it to win it, then we need to get out.

Taguba   July 12th, 2010 - 10:20 am

I bet you love the wasilla bimbo and the Arizona racist too. your opinion is crap. so we can just ignore it from now on.

Eileen for Freedom   July 12th, 2010 - 5:22 pm

‘LAME DUCK’ FOR THANKSGIVING! Then impeachment or the ‘original’ records of birth…it is just a matter of time…and 2010 will be the time!

America…no one wins in Afghanistan…it is too large…it is too tribal…and too primitive…and that is how the Afghans like it!

It will not change…we need to bring our troops home and let their tribes fight it out…as they have for centuries!

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Taguba   July 12th, 2010 - 5:23 pm

not their values consist of letting our teenage daughters adult boyfriends live with her after a stern absitnance only talking too.

Along with Torure, war as a fisrt option, ruining our environment, and letting our poor suffer and die so we can buy a new jet ski or get the pool relined.

Judgedavey   July 12th, 2010 - 5:24 pm

Let's see, Democrats ran the Vietnam war out of Washington, now Democrats are running the Afgan war out of Washington. Same situation, and probably the same results too. Don't socialist ever learn on the job????? Remember in November…..

DarthShatner   July 12th, 2010 - 5:28 pm

SO true…. how many ummms and ahhhhh would O'bambi stumble through if asked the question: "How would you define winning the war against radical Islam in Afghanistan?"

di_da_is_alpha   July 12th, 2010 - 5:33 pm

Quit lickin' your balls, chihuahua.

DefunctDaRegime   July 12th, 2010 - 5:40 pm

I could not agree more! We should get out now, because Obama is in it to lose.

WhiteGuy2   July 12th, 2010 - 10:47 am

Bolton is right, this war effort is doomed under the current Liberal regime.

Although my understanding for the reasons to invade Afghanistan was to topple the Taliban regime, and capture or kill Bin Laden. Mission accomplished on stage one. Bin Laden, well he isn't in Afghanistan at the moment, he fled into Pakistan. It is also very possible that he could be in Iran. Either way we won;t be able to get him by pussy footing around the poppy fields of Afghanistan, seems rather pointless to me.

DefunctDaRegime   July 12th, 2010 - 10:48 am

I don't know who you're trying to refer to Taguba. The only bimbos relevant to this discussion I know off-hand are Ms. Taguba and Ms. Obama, and the only racists in high level government I know are Obama and deluded Democrap gang members, objects I find impossible to muster any love for whatsoever. So please refine your references.

Kevin Stowell   July 12th, 2010 - 10:51 am

Teabaggin' his own self, I'll be damned.

Dave_in_Oregon   July 12th, 2010 - 6:07 pm

John Bolton is a man who knows what he is talking about and won't take any bull from the liberals who don't know their ass from their elbow.

Dave_in_Oregon   July 12th, 2010 - 6:09 pm

WE?

Who the F is we?

I know John Bolton is a real American….
and I also know that you are a complete asshole!

ronfromflorida   July 12th, 2010 - 6:42 pm

I understand what you are saying but unless we have the courage to take on Iran then get the hell out of the entire region.

UrinalMint   July 12th, 2010 - 7:02 pm

I think that we should go back to the old days and give Barry a white horse (maybe the government can buy Trigger) and let him ride into battle, leading those troops that would actually follow him.

If he weren't blunderer-in-chief, and if the troops did not respect the position, CNN and MSNBC would film Barry-Bob riding into battle all by himself. I can see it now.

howardrourk   July 12th, 2010 - 7:04 pm

Nation building in Afghanistan will fail.

DontTreadOnMe   July 12th, 2010 - 7:32 pm

It'd be a hard question to answer given that he doesn't believe in a thing called "radical Islam", much less that we need to "win a war" against it.

DontTreadOnMe   July 12th, 2010 - 7:35 pm

We already told you that cesspools don't need liners, idiot. Your parents have been letting you swim in it but they will not buy a liner.
Your nearly incomprehensible gibberish is getting harder to decipher. Put the bong away before you kill that last brain cell.

DontTreadOnMe   July 12th, 2010 - 7:37 pm

You think an attack should wait until AFTER Iran has a nuke or two? Or five? How about the world wait until Iran has time to get a couple of warheads to al Qaeda? What's YOUR plan?

Taguba   July 12th, 2010 - 7:37 pm

too bad i have been banned because of the constant kicking you d bags in the nuts

TalkingDust   July 12th, 2010 - 12:39 pm

"Maybe the government can buy Trigger…"

The visual of BOzo on Roy Roger's taxidermied horse is a fittingly "stiff" analogy for a President who can't (and won't) move America forward in the right direction.

rowley   July 12th, 2010 - 8:15 pm

Bolton has more wisdom on this type of issue than anyone in the BO Regime.

patriot5257   July 12th, 2010 - 10:00 pm

If the soviets couldn't win with their non-politically correct warfare, it's no secret that we will again lose yet another war.

MystWlker   July 12th, 2010 - 10:55 pm

Since WWII, no Democrat administration has ever successfully prosecuted a war.

leroitroisieme   July 13th, 2010 - 12:10 am

Tagged this one right. Next year, Obama will through his arms up and surrender. He will say that he gave it his best shot. Well, Obama will not say it; the leftist media will say it for him and all along the way say that it is Bush's fault.

Obama and the left say this constantly when they keep failing. Of course, they fail, becuase they think the terrorists will play nice, if we take off our gloves. Leftists don't have a grip on reality at all.

Wasilla_Grizzly   July 13th, 2010 - 2:11 pm

I cant imagine a fine patriot like unconfirmed John Bolton talking down the troops ?? why does he think they are failures ?? I think he should appologize immediately. Our troops are winners, the war and the plan are losers.

sunflowers   July 13th, 2010 - 3:41 pm

As Rush has said, " War is when you kill people and break things" The day we stopped doing that we began putting our soldiers in danger for reasons unknown. We need a bad ass for a president, not a metro sexual. God help us.

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