Posts Tagged: John Bolton
Obama Fiddles While the World Burns
Nero "fiddled," so they say, while Rome burned. Today, this epigram all too accurately describes President Obama's approach to U.S. national security. For five years,...
Verification is the Elephant in the Room in the Iranian Nuke Deal
Verifying compliance with nuclear arms-control and nonproliferation agreements is undeniably a worthy objective. But verification is no panacea. It is never completely comprehensive or effective. It...
Geneva Deal is ‘Abject Surrender’ by the United States
Negotiations for an "interim" arrangement over Iran's nuclear weapons program finally succeeded this past weekend, as Security Council foreign ministers (plus Germany) flew to Geneva...
Obama’s ‘Deal’ Will Let Iran Get the Bomb
Barack Obama seems poised this week to reach an agreement with Iran on its nuclear-weapons program in talks that resumeWednesday. Negotiations came unstuck this month...
Opinion: Obama’s Foreign Policy Blunders Carry a Heavy Cost
Under Barack Obama, American influence in the Middle East has sunk to levels not seen since before World War II. From Israel to Saudi Arabia,...
A Korean Ghost Lurks at U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks
Are Iran and North Korea cooperating on their nuclear-weapons programs? If so, their efforts undermine, and may preclude, Barack Obama's diplomatic attempts to address these...
Obama Should Listen to Saudi Arabia
On October 17, Saudi Arabia was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council. The next day, Riyadh...
Raids in Libya and Somalia are Positive Steps, But Not Enough
Last weekend's daring anti-terrorist raids in Somalia and Libya demonstrated once again the extraordinary capabilities of America's special operations forces and intelligence services. Launched almost...
With Iran, We Can’t Verify or Trust
Tuesday's opening of yet another round of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear-weapons program creates enormous risks for America's anti-proliferation efforts. Tehran's extensive propaganda campaign,...
Congress Should Not Overreact to NSA Controversy
After former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked information about the NSA's extensive gathering of phone and Internet data, many Americans were outraged at...
Bolton: Rouhani is Playing Obama
Monday ends the worst month of the Obama presidency. The Syrian diplomatic and political debacle was bad enough, but last week at the United Nations President...
Report: Israel Seeks to Lever $110 Billion ‘Horizon 2020’ Joint Research Initiative Against EU Sanction Directive
Israeli negotiators are trying to exercise a multi-billion lever to counter a European Union directive to bar Israeli communities and entities operating beyond the...
Syria Exemplifies Failure of the United Nations
The U.N. General Assembly's 68th session will open its annual "general debate" in New York on Tuesday, with leadoff speakers including President Obama and Iranian President...
Syria Turmoil in Congress is All Obama’s Doing
By asking Congress to approve using military force against Syria's Assad regime, Barack Obama threw Washington into turmoil. If Congress declines his request, he will face...
