General John Sheehan explains why he declined Bush’s offer of the scapegoat war czar position.

“What I found in discussions with current and former members of this administration is that there is no agreed-upon strategic view of the Iraq problem or the region. In my view, there are essentially three strategies in play simultaneously.”

This is kinda long, but you have to watch it. John Bolton is interviewed by a BBC reporter who actually had facts in front of him and was willing to use them to expose his “guest” as being more than a little callous and hypocritical. It’s a shame we can’t get the US media to behave like this. Then maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Ironically, one interpretation of Bolton’s position would be that he actually supports troop withdrawal as proposed by the Democrats. That wasn’t addressed in the interview, but I’m pretty sure he’s too much of a party-line man to agree with it.