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The Palestinian Authority (“P.A.”) is proceeding full steam ahead to create “facts on the ground” in the Middle East by working the Manhattan corridors of the United Nations. This is neither the first time, nor undoubtedly the last, that Palestinian leaders have succumbed to the delusion that Middle Eastern reality can be changed by irrelevant U.N. activity. The tactical ploys and counter-ploys are now flying around the U.N. compound. In the midst of all of the conflicting news reports we will see and hear, keep in mind one thing: this is more Broadway theater than a serious effort to achieve...

Barack Obama's badly flawed worldview and the incoherent foreign policy flowing from it have now disintegrated. Within the past few months, his media acolytes notwithstanding, the evidence has become conclusive: Obama's presidency is gravely wounding America and its friends. His response to virtually every significant threat or crisis has either complicated or worsened the problem, or, at best, left it essentially no closer to resolution. Obama has repeatedly highlighted his propensity to apologize for America's past transgressions (as he defines them), and his disinclination to be assertive on our behalf. Indeed, so radically different is Obama from any prior American...

John Bolton has decided not to throw his hat in the ring for president in 2012, which kinda makes me sad. I think he would have gotten my vote over everyone and I would have loved to see him in a debate.

Today, one 911 mom, who lost her son, said to me of our 911 Freedom Rally, "I am looking forward to the rally. It is a place we can be free to really remember the who, why, when and where of 9-11. The morning ceremony is devoid of any meaning." The NY Post is reporting that many 911 family members have not been invited to the official ceremonies of 911. This is just monstrous. First it was clergy, then 911 first responders who were excluded from the official ceremonies -- now it's the victims' families. Mayor Gloomberg not only lost...

Even as the Obama administration admonishes the United Nations for an “unwarranted” pay hike for staffers, it is going to bat for the United Nations against proposed legislation proposed in Congress that would revolutionize the way America finances international institutions and give Washington better leverage over them. Proponents of the legislation, offered today by the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican of Florida, say that no matter how hard the administration fights against it, the current political climate presents an opportunity to rethink how American taxpayers finance Turtle Bay. “This is the only way...

Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that “the first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force.” Today, failing to protect our national security inevitably endangers our economic prosperity by making us vulnerable to global adversaries. It is clear that President Obama does not agree with Smith’s wisdom. Obama’s policies are jeopardizing not only our national security and economy, but our constitutional sovereignty too. That is why I have been considering running for President. The Republican Party must...

Audio of Bolton in Israel yesterday saying Obama is "the most anti-Israel president in the history of the state, beyond any question" “If you think that this is just a misunderstanding of where the green crayon went in 1949, then think again,” Who could disagree?

Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, who is considered a possible candidate for president, believes that Washington should pay more attention to South Caucasus. According to Georgian sources, the politician believes that the US government should not allow the growing influence of Russia in the region. "We must not forget the statement of Putin, which he made during the period of his presidency. Putin said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century", said Bolton, adding that the current policy of Moscow in the South Caucasus is fully consistent with...

A man who is seeking the Republican nomination for president has chosen to spend Independence Day not in Iowa or New Hampshire but in front of Independence Hall where it all began. Herman Cain is joining Ambassador John Bolton, talk show host Dom Giordano, businessman Joey Venuto and former Highlands, N.J. Mayor Anna Little as speakers at the 2011 Energy Independence Day Tea Party to be held 1-3 p.m., July 4 at Independence Mall, 5th and Market streets, Philadelphia. "By joining us at Independence Mall this year, these statesmen are also recognizing the significance of our Tea Party theme," said...

Former United Nations ambassador and potential 2012 presidential candidate John Bolton told The Daily Caller he’s “glad” Fox News’s South Carolina presidential debate Thursday evening focused mostly on foreign policy. “I think it shows how early in the process it is and how really unstructured the debate over national security is,” Bolton told TheDC before speaking at a Republican National Lawyers Association event at the National Press Club. “I was glad that the Fox questioners raised it and I think it’s obviously appropriate in the week after the death of [al Qaeda leader Osama] bin Laden and in that sense,...

See Video from Greta Van Susteran's show! Bolton skeptical about China’s economy Just when you thought all Bolton could talk about was foreign policy, he does a great segment on China’s economy vs our economy and debt. To sum it up, Bolton really doesn’t agree with Trump that we are getting ripped by China. Of course they are cheating and stealing from us in several ways, but he doesn’t agree that China’s economy will out grow the US economy in 10 to 15 years. In fact he believes that all these tales of China’s super-growing economy could be greatly exaggerated....

Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton reacts to President Obama's speech on Libya. "I thought it was pathetic," he said.

The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations—and possible GOP candidate in 2012—tells Lloyd Grove of his decidedly undiplomatic solution to the crisis in Libya: Assassinate the dictator. Plus, Babak Dehghanpisheh reports from Libya on the rebels' key victory in Ajdabiya. Former ambassador John Bolton, President Bush's decidedly undiplomatic envoy to the United Nations who is considering running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has a decidedly undiplomatic solution to the crisis in Libya: The United States should terminate Muammar Gaddafi with extreme prejudice. Speaking Saturday afternoon in Des Moines, Iowa, at Republican Rep. Steve King's Conservative Principles Conference—a cattle...

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton spoke at Congressman Steve King’s Conservative Principles PAC Conference in Des Moines, IA. “National security should be an important in 2012.” He said that our national security and foreign policy should be a tangible issues for voters in 2012 as it impact our independence, freedom, our peace and security. Blasting Obama he said he wasn’t qualified to be president when he was elected and he noted that he still isn’t elected. He said he said national security “doesn’t get him up in the morning.” He said he doesn’t see the world as a very threatening...

In Libya, Bolton ‘Would Have Put Troops on the Ground’; Obama Strategy Could Lead to ‘Quagmire’ Washington, D.C. — John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a Georgetown University audience Monday that he “would have put troops on the ground” on “day two or three” of the Libyan conflict in order to seize the port and airport in Tripoli. Such early action, he argued, “might well have tipped the balance irrevocably against Qaddafi.” Bolton, a potential 2012 presidential contender, spoke for an hour to undergraduates about his foreign-policy views. But his remarks centered upon the...

John R. Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations who is weighing a presidential run in 2012, accused President Obama on Friday of failing to address threats to U.S. national security and called the administration's approach to the crisis in Libya "pathetic." Hours after the president warned that the United Nations was ready to launch a military strike to defend the Libyan people if their leader Moammar Kadafi did not halt his attacks on civilians and pull back from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi and three other cities, Bolton cast the president as indecisive, inconsistent and uninterested in foreign...

As Libya's bloody conflict rages on, important lessons for U.S. foreign policy are emerging from the past month's Middle East turmoil. Starting with Tunisia, the Obama administration has seemed repeatedly surprised by anti-regime demonstrations, unsure of the stakes for America and its allies and unprepared conceptually and operationally to deal with the consequences. In Egypt, there was contradictory, unhelpful White House rhetoric when silence would have been prudent - and in Libya, silence when strong American words (and actions) were amply warranted. The truth is, while regional turmoil ignited nearly simultaneously in several countries, the causes of the uprisings require...

"This administration makes the Keystone Cops look organized. "

Hosni Mubarak's resignation as president of Egypt, after thirty years of authoritarian rule, is a major seismic event in the unstable Middle East. Although not as shattering as the 1981 assassination of his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, Mubarak's departure may actually pose more of a challenge to Egypt's long-ruling military than either Sadat's murder or the natural death of Gamal Nasser, the first officer in the modern military line after the 1952 overthrow of King Farouk. The "regime" thereafter was the military itself; while Mubarak was obviously its apex in recent years, the military establishment as a whole governed, not just...

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King announced an expanded list of speakers for a conservative conference he'll hold next month in Des Moines to underscore the nascent GOP nomination fight that will unfold in his state over the next year. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint will keynote the Conservative Principles Conference on March 26, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is scheduled to participate as well. Now King has added Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Ambassador John Bolton and Herman Cain, all of whom are exploring the 2012 race for the White House. The roster skews heavily to the most conservative...