I am working on transcribing a conversation between Chris Matthews and John Bolton. Some of the things Bolton says is fucking insane. He advocates many of the same tactics the Third Reich used to gain and influence events in Europe that led up to WWII. That would be construed as a comparison to Hitler. Although I don't like such comparisons, here it might be closer to the mark than ever.


I wish we had been working on regime change for the last for years, then we might not face this very difficult choice.

What do you mean by regime change, that phrase is new to me, what does it mean?

I think there is enormous dissatisfaction inside Iran with this regime, I think it's more...

They had an election, we gotta live with it. You're part of an administration that believes that elections offer some deliverance from unpleasant realities, when in fact they keep electing the people we don't like.

That's not my position. That was never my personal position.

But the administration's position is the elections are magic.

Indeed that is the administration's position, it is not mine. There is enormous economic dissatisfaction in Iran, the Mullahs have made hash of the economy since the Islamic revolution.

I know.

The young people who are nearly seventy percent of the population under thirty know they could have a different....

What happens if we attack that country by air, and we blow up their suspected nuclear sites, and we kill a few people. That always happens. Do you think the civilians, the secular population in that country - the secular people - do you think they'll turn against us?

I think it's very important, if we have to use military force, and I stress again, this is a last resort, but if we do have to use military force, we should accompany it with a very extensive effort at regime change and public diplomacy...

But won't that be counter productive, they will unite against us, won't they?

...to persuade people that this is against the regime and not against the people. I think the Iranian people are smart enough to see that distinction.

The trouble with neoconservatives....

You have got to be fucking kidding me. Bolton is living in a dream world, either that or he is trying to convince others. 'Regime change' and 'public diplomacy', these are the concepts that make men believe they can use extreme measures to shape the masses as they think they should be. Historically speaking, it is plain these thought processes are always ill conceived. Why is it men like Bolton think they are smarter than those that have tried before in the thousands of preceding years?