Glenn Greenwald nails him:
All over the world, countries have put terrorists on trial in their largest and most important cities — London, Madrid, Mumbai, Denpasar (the capital of Bali). That’s because their countries weren’t flooded by meek, frightened little men like John Bolton who want to send their fellow citizens to bomb and invade as many countries as they can find in order to conceal and compensate for the suffocating cowardice revealed by both his life and these comments. It’s a natural human instinct to try to prove to the world that one possesses exactly those characteristics which one most lacks — which is why right-wing warriors of the type represented by John Bolton are so desperate to prove their Churchillian courage and resolve, always from the safest and most risk-free distances.
What’s blissfully ironic is that this class of people are the ones who allowed the US to fund IRA terrorists in England for many years, until the Clinton administration banned the sale of weapons to them. Did anyone see Sinn Fein using diplomacy prior to that? No. That’s because diplomacy was their last resort, unleashed only once the means by which they could blow up schools and shopping malls was removed.
And guess where they were tried? That’s right— London. In civilian courts.
