“If [Hezbollah] wants to be a political party, it needs to act like a political party and not have in its arsenal things like antiship cruise missiles. Most political parties don’t have that kind of weaponry.” -US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton on FOX News Sunday earlier today.

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1. Silly comment by Bolton. Hezbollah is already a political party in Lebanon, with MPs and a couple of cabinet ministers. But I guess that’s the kind of comments that Faux News viewers like, full of truthiness, short on truth.

   Comment by Sonny — Sunday, July 23, 2006 @ 5:48 pm

2. I don’t know. I think there are politicians in both of our political parties who are as destructive as any cruise missile. Self-inflicted wounds only, of course.

   Comment by Dave Schuler — Sunday, July 23, 2006 @ 5:55 pm

3. Sonny,

   Come now, you have to admit that “Most political parties don’t have that kind of weaponry” is at least mildly amusing.

   On a more serious note: yes, Hezbollah is already a political party in Lebanon, but one has to acknowledge that their co-status as a militia group is problematic. (And that is true whether one watches Fox News or not).

   S

   Comment by Dr. Steven Taylor — Sunday, July 23, 2006 @ 6:59 pm

4. [...] of weaponry.”
   –John Bolton,US Ambassador to the UN, on FOX News Sunday.
   HT: PoliBlog

   Published Monday, 24 July, 2006 7:16 AM
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5. Poliblogger seems to be in his element lately

   I don’t just mean he’s spot on in his blogging about Colombia, his oeuvre, as he does here http://poliblogger.com/?p=10390 (where one almost wishes Colombian paramilitaries were challenging Columbia’s rebels until one recalls th…

   Trackback by Pros and Cons — Monday, July 24, 2006 @ 11:06 am

6. Also note: Bolton said that most political parties don’t have those things - and he’s right. And I think we can safely say that there’s a good reason most political parties don’t have anti-ship missles.

   Comment by B. Minich — Monday, July 24, 2006 @ 11:16 am

7. Ah, there was a time when the Whigs and Tories would have given their right arms for something like a cruise missile to use on their opponents. Neil Stephenson touches on this in his Baroque Trilogy novels, if you’d rather not slog through the history.

   Comment by Antiquated Tory — Tuesday, July 25, 2006 @ 9:07 am

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