John Bolton is the former U.S. Amassador to the United Nations, where he made some much-needed waves with his unapologetic criticism of America's enemies, not to mention of the UN itself. Bolton says its time to neutralize Iran's terrorist training camps, whch the U.S. military says are producing jihadists who are killing American troops in Iraq. Here's more:
Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took no action.
“This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do,” he said. “Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.”
Mr Bolton, an influential former member of President George W Bush’s inner circle, dismissed as “dead wrong” reported British intelligence conclusions that the US military had overstated the support that Iran was providing to Iraqi fighters.
And the plot thickens: the U.S. military now says that Hezbollah is using Iran as a base to train iraqi insurgents. Time magazine is taking a wait and see approach.