Bolton for President:

Conservative foreign and national-security policies do not need remaking, rebranding or remessaging. They need not be escorted by prefixes or adjectives, nor do they need “moderating.”

Conservative foreign policy is unabashedly pro-American, unashamed of American exceptionalism, unwilling to bend its knee to international organizations, and unapologetic about the need for the fullest range of dominant military capabilities. Its diplomacy is neither unilateralist nor multilateralist, but chooses its strategies, tactics, means and methods based on a hard-headed assessment of U.S. national interests, not on theologies about process. Most especially, conservatives understand that allies are different from adversaries, and that each should be treated accordingly.

Overseas “apology tours,” public displays of empathy and inviting the likes of Iran to Fourth of July receptions at our embassies will not alter these underlying realities. Nor will reducing national-security budgets on such key items as missile defense and advanced weapons systems (while dramatically increasing unnecessary and inevitably inflationary domestic spending) make our adversaries more amenable to sweet reason. Sadly, such gratuitous indications of self-doubt and weakness only encourage the very adversaries whose favor we are currying.

Let the shrieking from Leftard fantasists who violently disagree with every premise Bolton herein presents — all of which are self-evident and unassailable, reinforced as each and every one of them is by historical reality — begin.

Update! Meanwhile, back in the Not So Smart Power dream-world:

When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.

Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after his interrogation was completed, and Tenet says that the information the CIA obtained from him disrupted plots and saved lives. “I believe none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal – read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted that his client simply shut up,” Tenet wrote in his memoirs.

If Tenet is right, it’s a good thing KSM was captured before Barack Obama became president. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.

Greaaaat. More national-security wisdom from miserable failure Richard Clarke:

Richard Clarke, a senior counter-terrorism official in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, said the turnabout was long overdue.

“We have to return to the practice that we had before of arresting terrorists and putting them on trial,” said Clarke, who added that the country’s ability to do that “has atrophied.”

Oh, absolutely. Because those policies worked so well before — right up until they culminated in the inevitable result of the folly of letting lawyers run a war: the 9/11 attacks.

You already knew it, but it is now official: the WoT is over. We lost. Time to piss on the dogs, call in the fire, and batten down the hatches for the storm to come — a conflagration by which liberal idiots will once more profess to be “shocked” right out of their socks.

Update! Boy, we sure dodged a bullet with that idiot Palin, eh?

Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay..he wants to meet them without preconditions.

Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America…he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights?

Of course, the Left, from the lowliest deranged ‘tard-blogger all the way up to their Lyin’ Messiah Himself, howled with outrage over this vicious and insupportable canard. And now, like so much of what Palin said on the campaign trail, her “nutty conspiracy theory” has become disgraceful fact right before our eyes, and made the shrieking of the “reality”-based communitards look like what it was all along: politically-motivated subterfuge, with apoplectic outrage born of the monster Palin’s having dared to tell the truth about their real agenda.

Still think we can have an honest, polite debate with these America-hating liars?