Why Do They Hate Us? Start With John Bolton

Published: August 2, 2007, 2:29 pm

Visit Lobelog.com for the latest news analysis and commentary from Inter Press News Service’s Washington bureau chief Jim Lobe. Does former UN Amb. John Bolton now with the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) still speak for Dick Cheney? The new British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown must be scratching its collective head over that question given the truly unbelievably arrogant and threatening op-ed Bolton, a Cheney protege, published in Wednesday's Financial Times. The column's title, Britain Cannot Have Two Best Friends, refers to what Bolton calls a clear decision point for Britain to choose between the United States and the European Union or, as he refers to it, the European porridge of which he so clearly disapproves. For Bolton, it is a zero-sum game, and, in his view, it is now up to Brown to make the choice. [W]hether the special relationship' grows stronger or weaker lies entirely in British hands,

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