BOLTON BRINGS US BACK TO REALITY - AT 9:19 A.M. ET:  Writing in this morning's Wall Street Journal, the great John Bolton brings us back from Obama's fantasy world, to reality.  This relates to the story just below:

While President Obama's unanticipated Nowruz holiday greeting to Iran generated considerable press attention, his video wasn't really this week's big news related to the Islamic Republic. Far more important was that a senior defector -- Iran's former Deputy Minister of Defense Ali Reza Asghari -- disclosed Tehran's financing of Syria's nuclear weapons program. That program's centerpiece was a North Korean nuclear reactor in Syria. Israel destroyed it in September 2007.

At this point, it is impossible to ignore Iran's active efforts to expand, improve and conceal its nuclear weapons program in Syria while it pretends to "negotiate" with Britain, France and Germany (the "EU-3"). No amount of video messages will change this reality. The question is whether this new information about Iran will sink in, or if Washington will continue to turn a blind eye toward Iran's nuclear deceptions.

COMMENT:  That John Bolton is so annoying.  He wants everyone connected to foreign policy to grow up.  What should we do with a man like this?

The Iranian defector's report proves that Bolton's warnings have been correct all along.  They've also been ridiculed.  What a pity if we fixed our economy, and sealed the doom of an American ally or an American city.

March 21, 2009