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2005-05-04 14:20:56 UTC
John Bolton, Wimp
A Vietnam hawk who remained stateside.
By Timothy Noah
http://slate.com/id/2117827/
Scratch a saber-rattler, find a war wimp. You can just about set your
watch by it, can't you? So it's entirely unsurprising to read the
following about John Bolton, Yale '70, in the Yale Daily News:
Though Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he declined to enter combat
duty, instead enlisting in the National Guard and attending law school
after his 1970 graduation. "I confess I had no desire to die in a
Southeast Asian rice paddy," Bolton wrote of his decision in the 25th
reunion book. "I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."
President Bush's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations obviously
never got the memo explaining that service in the National Guard during
the Vietnam war requires no justification or apology-that's sooo Dan
Quayle!-and that to suggest the National Guard was anything other
than a major contributor to the fighting forces in Vietnam is a
grievous insult to the National Guardsmen who really are a major
contributor to the fighting forces in Iraq. Never mind that the overall
mortality rate for National Guardsmen during the Vietnam War was lower
than the mortality rate for rock-throwing antiwar protesters and
bystanders in the Prentice Hall parking lot at Kent State on May 4,
1970. It's a little bit rude to put it that way, but I'm told the
future U.N. ambassador admires bluntness.
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A Vietnam hawk who remained stateside.
By Timothy Noah
http://slate.com/id/2117827/
Scratch a saber-rattler, find a war wimp. You can just about set your
watch by it, can't you? So it's entirely unsurprising to read the
following about John Bolton, Yale '70, in the Yale Daily News:
Though Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he declined to enter combat
duty, instead enlisting in the National Guard and attending law school
after his 1970 graduation. "I confess I had no desire to die in a
Southeast Asian rice paddy," Bolton wrote of his decision in the 25th
reunion book. "I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."
President Bush's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations obviously
never got the memo explaining that service in the National Guard during
the Vietnam war requires no justification or apology-that's sooo Dan
Quayle!-and that to suggest the National Guard was anything other
than a major contributor to the fighting forces in Vietnam is a
grievous insult to the National Guardsmen who really are a major
contributor to the fighting forces in Iraq. Never mind that the overall
mortality rate for National Guardsmen during the Vietnam War was lower
than the mortality rate for rock-throwing antiwar protesters and
bystanders in the Prentice Hall parking lot at Kent State on May 4,
1970. It's a little bit rude to put it that way, but I'm told the
future U.N. ambassador admires bluntness.
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