{"id":2056,"date":"2005-05-03T02:04:05","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T09:04:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-05-03T02:04:05","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T09:04:05","slug":"defending-connecticut-from-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/03\/defending-connecticut-from-charlie\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Connecticut From Charlie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2117827\/>Timothy Noah<\/a>, this alumnus chatter from the <i>Yale Daily News<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>Though [John] 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. &#8220;I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,&#8221; Bolton wrote of his decision in the 25th reunion book. &#8220;I considered the war in Vietnam already lost.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t believe that anyone \u2013 even a bloodthirsty cretin \u2013 owes his life to the state. But Bolton&#8217;s got some &#8216;splaining to do. First off, John Bolton (b. 1948) was enlistment age in 1966. Did he think the war was &#8220;already lost&#8221; in &#8217;66? If so, then far from being a hawk, he was in the vanguard of the doves. When did young Bolton have this epiphany? After <a href=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/SPECIALS\/cold.war\/episodes\/11\/spotlight\/>Dien Bien Phu<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Second, the National Guard route seems out of character for a man of such <a href=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=cache:k2v6M-oNsI0J:www.cfif.org\/htdocs\/freedomline\/current\/in_our_opinion\/bully-for-bolton.htm+%22john+bolton%22+%22certified+tough+guy%22&#038;hl=en>legendary testicular girth<\/a>. If he thought the war was already lost, why didn&#8217;t he stand up on the bar, fire his pistol in the air to get everybody&#8217;s attention, and say so \u2013 you know, like tough guys do? I&#8217;m not saying he had to become some kinda <i>antiwar<\/i> pinko or nothin&#8217;. He coulda just said, &#8220;Well, fellas, this here war in Viet NAM is a helluva good thing, and we&#8217;ve killed a bunch of reds and little gooks who woulda grown up to be reds, and if it were up to ME, Hanoi \u2013 hell, <i>Moscow<\/i>&#8216;d be glowin&#8217; by now, but them damned lily-livered queers in Washington ain&#8217;t gonna let us, so&#8230; Might as well end this thing &#8216;fore any more of our boys come back D.O.A. or missin&#8217; extremities.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Seems to me that&#8217;s what a real tough guy would&#8217;ve done. But I&#8217;ll yield to the judgment of other <a href=http:\/\/www.nhgazette.com\/news\/chickenhawks\/>tough guys<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Timothy Noah, this alumnus chatter from the Yale Daily News: Though [John] 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. &#8220;I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,&#8221; Bolton wrote of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}