Bolton: Obama's speech a 'frightening revelation' about how president thinks

[ScreamingEagle]

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton saw President Obama’s speech in Brussels today as deeply concerning for the United States and a grave insight into how Obama views international relations.

Bolton, speaking directly after the speech on Fox News, was flummoxed that President Obama’s chief concern appeared to be that Russian President Vladimir Putin violated international law by invading Ukraine.

Absent, Bolton noted, was any mention of Russia’s imperialist motivations or the need to implement further deterrents against Putin.

“There’s nothing in the speech about understanding force and power and international affairs the way the Russians do and how they proceeded, nor anything about deterrents or dissuasion. It was almost entirely about international norms, international law, the United Nations, none of which have done a thing to stop Russians in Ukraine.”

Additionally, Bolton ripped President Obama for suggesting U.S. interests in Ukraine are minimal considering the former Soviet state’s geopolitical significance.

Bolton: Obama Is Living In a World of Words, Putin Is Living In a World of Power | Washington Free Beacon

 

[ClosedCaption]

Is it? Is it Frightening?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So maybe "Organized Communities" isn't the best thing on a CV for POTUS

 

[ScreamingEagle]

So maybe "Organized Communities" isn't the best thing on a CV for POTUS

it's like Obama is angling for a job at the ineffective UN after he's done with the U.S. presidency....he's more into promoting UN international law and practices than actually stopping Putin.....nothing more than a weakling community organizer gone global...

 

[Plasmaball]

Yawn..it's bolton...neocon and nothing else. Anything short of his view is a problem. So i could careless about this jerk off piece.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Yawn..it's bolton...neocon and nothing else. Anything short of his view is a problem. So i could careless about this jerk off piece.

BO is all about the 'collective'......he doesn't know how to face Putin on his own....

 

[AceRothstein]

Everything coming from Bolton's mouth is frightening.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Everything coming from Bolton's mouth is frightening.

especially when he talks about Obama...

 

[DGS49]

Actually, it is a further manifestation of this Administration's core belief that if we are nice to everybody, and act civilly, everyone will like us and the world will be at peace.

To Our Beloved President, the takeover of Crimea is not a military invasion - a use of military might to gain an objective, but rather an "illegal act," that must be raised to some international tribunal and adjudicated. There, in the simple mind of the First Community Organizer, Russia will be made to back off and pay a fine. All we have to do is point out to Russia that they agreed in 1994 to respect Ukraine's borders and, dang it, they don't appear to be doing that!

This campaign by the Obama Administration is similar to the fatuous belief that the prisoners at GITMO ought to be tried in American courts and given "constitutional" protections.

It is of great concern to anyone respecting America's position as the only remaining super-power that our Commander in Chief just doesn't "get it."

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Actually, it is a further manifestation of this Administration's core belief that if we are nice to everybody, and act civilly, everyone will like us and the world will be at peace.

To Our Beloved President, the takeover of Crimea is not a military invasion - a use of military might to gain an objective, but rather an "illegal act," that must be raised to some international tribunal and adjudicated. There, in the simple mind of the First Community Organizer, Russia will be made to back off and pay a fine. All we have to do is point out to Russia that they agreed in 1994 to respect Ukraine's borders and, dang it, they don't appear to be doing that!

This campaign by the Obama Administration is similar to the fatuous belief that the prisoners at GITMO ought to be tried in American courts and given "constitutional" protections.

It is of great concern to anyone respecting America's position as the only remaining super-power that our Commander in Chief just doesn't "get it."

Obama is frustrated that Putin won't buy into what he thinks is the 21st Century new world order...

 

[ClosedCaption]

Everything coming from Bolton's mouth is frightening.

...and around his mouth too.

WTF is that? A janitors broom?

 

[WillowTree]

Yawn..it's bolton...neocon and nothing else. Anything short of his view is a problem. So i could careless about this jerk off piece.

I'll give you that! You are pretty careless! but Bolton is spot on.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Obama has done nothing re Ukraine to change Bolton's earlier description of his foreign policy as 'limp wristed'.....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9RO7wMfoc]Bolton Calls Obama's Foreign Policy 'Limp Wristed' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[HenryBHough]

Obama has done nothing re Ukraine to change Bolton's earlier description of his foreign policy as 'limp wristed'.....

Not at all civil, how the term 'limp wristed' was formerly used. However in this context it's downright euphemistic. Shame on you, Bolton, for not saying what you really, really think. OK, so you were speaking for an audience that might have included women and children but candor might be excused in this particular case.

 

[BlindBoo]

Imagine what Bolton would have said about President Eisenhower when he sat back and watched as Hungary was invaded and forced back into the Soviet bloc. Or President Johnson when they invaded Czechoslovakia.

 

[bedowin62]

Imagine what Bolton would have said about President Eisenhower when he sat back and watched as Hungary was invaded and forced back into the Soviet bloc. Or President Johnson when they invaded Czechoslovakia.

imagine left-wing nutjobs living in the present and trying to defend obama on the merits?

 

[HenryBHough]

Imagine what Bolton would have said about President Eisenhower when he sat back and watched as Hungary was invaded and forced back into the Soviet bloc. Or President Johnson when they invaded Czechoslovakia.

imagine left-wing nutjobs living in the present and trying to defend obama on the merits?

Shhhhh!

They still think Bush is president.

Which I guess is closer to fact than that we might presently have one.

 

[KNB]

What does John Bolton think that America should do about Russia?

 

[HenryBHough]

What does John Bolton think that America should do about Russia?

If he answers we'll know he's reading here.

Somehow I think he won't.

 

[Plasmaball]

Yawn..it's bolton...neocon and nothing else. Anything short of his view is a problem. So i could careless about this jerk off piece.

BO is all about the 'collective'......he doesn't know how to face Putin on his own....

Ok