John Bolton: “Israel’s On The Chopping Block”

Here’s John Bolton’s remarks earlier today on Fox with Megyn Kelly, reacting to Obama’s horrendous UN speech:

The Corner has excerpts from Bolton’s sobering response:

“It was a very naïve, Wilsonian speech, and very revealing of Obama’s foreign policy,” says Bolton. “Overall, it was so apologetic for the actions of prior administrations, in an effort to distance Obama from them, that it became yet another symbol of American weakness in the wake of the president’s decision to abandon missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, and his recent manifest hesitation over what to do in Afghanistan.”

Drew M at AoSHQ quipped:

The Obama administration reminds me of this quote from The Hunt for Red October, “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it. “

POWIP says:

Israelis? Get your things together,’cuz the bus is coming

Obama spoke of  new coalitions being formed…God help us, yes indeed- there are, and not for the good of humanity, either.

Related reading:

Nile Gardiner at The UK Telegraph:

The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak

It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as “partly free” or “not free” by respected watchdog Freedom House.

The UN is not a club of democracies – who still remain a minority within its membership – it is a vast melting pot of free societies, socialist regimes and outright tyrannies. Obama’s clear lack of interest in human rights issues is a big seller at the UN, where at least half its members have poor human rights records.

The president scores highly at the UN for refusing to project American values and military might on the world stage, with rare exceptions like the war against the Taliban. His appeasement of Iran, his bullying of Israel, his surrender to Moscow, his call for a nuclear free world, his siding with Marxists in Honduras, his talk of a climate change deal, have all won him plaudits in the large number of UN member states where US foreign policy has traditionally been viewed with contempt.

Simply put, Barack Obama is loved at the UN because he largely fails to advance real American leadership. This is a dangerous strategy of decline that will weaken US power and make her far more vulnerable to attack.