Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.
John BoltonEverybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
John BoltonWell, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
John BoltonThe Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.
John BoltonPeople say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
John BoltonJust as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.
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