Speaking in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said that the situation with Iran “is very perilous” because the regime “is close to achieving its twenty year long objective of getting nuclear weapons.”
“I don’t think the economic sanctions have slowed the program down at all and I think that unless the United States or Israel takes military action that Iran will get nuclear weapons,” Bolton told Arutz Sheva.
“This is a very undesirable situation to be in and the choices are not good…,” he added.
Bolton: Situation With Iran ‘Very Perilous’ – Jewish World – News – Israel National News
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Bolton: Situation With Iran ‘Very Perilous’
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on April 26, 2013
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U.N. leader: Syrian civil war threatens cease-fire with Israel – The Washington Post
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on March 22, 2013
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The Syrian civil war is threatening the 39-year-old cease-fire between Syria and Israel, as fighting along a separation line between the two countries is undermining the United Nations’ capacity to monitor the terms of the truce, according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki moon.
The development poses the most serious challenge to date to the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement, which set the terms for a strained, but stable, stalemate between Israel and Syria following the Yom Kippur War. For decades, it has helped to guarantee relative calm between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights.
U.N. leader: Syrian civil war threatens cease-fire with Israel – The Washington Post
A New World Disorder
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on March 2, 2013
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Today, after the brutality of the first half of the 20th century, the temporary bipolarity of the Cold War, and the United States’ brief post-1989 hyper-power status, the world is once again searching for a new international order. Can something like the Concert of Europe be globalised? Unfortunately, global cacophony seems more probable. One obvious reason is the absence of a recognised and accepted international referee. The United States, which best embodies ultimate power, is less willing – and less able – to exercise it. And the United Nations, which best embodies the principles of international order, is as divided and impotent as ever.
Obama cyber strategy limited to diplomacy, law enforcement | Washington Free Beacon
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on February 21, 2013
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However, policy specific to China is not mentioned in the text of the strategy.
“This strategy is not focused on any one country nor is it focused on cybersecurity exclusively, though cyber does play an important role in the strategy,” said a White House official.
U.S. officials said the strategy deliberately played down the major role played by China in order to avoid upsetting relations with Beijing.
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John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, criticized the report for lacking substance.
“Repeating its strategic mistake of treating international terrorism as primarily a matter of law-enforcement, the Obama administration sees cyberspace the same way conceptually,” Bolton told the Free Beacon.
Obama cyber strategy limited to diplomacy, law enforcement | Washington Free Beacon
Why don’t US officials want to upset Beijing? Notice that Beijing isn’t worried about upsetting the US. Why not?
Here we have the US terrified of upsetting Beijing. Beijing acts with impunity. Who is the superpower here? Has the student become the master? I think the US is in big trouble.
UN confirms Hezbollah fighting for Assad in Syria
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on December 21, 2012
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Report warns that civil war fighting has split along sectarian lines, pitting ruling Alawites against majority Sunnis.
The Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah has confirmed that its members are in Syria fighting on behalf of the government, United Nations human rights investigators said on Thursday.
There are also reports that Iraqi Shias are coming to fight in Syria, and Iran confirmed in September that its Revolutionary Guards are in Syria providing assistance, the independent investigators led by Brazilian expert Paulo Pinheiro said in their latest 10-page report.
UN confirms Hezbollah fighting for Assad i… JPost – Middle East
U.S. to oppose Russian plan to give U.N. control of Internet | Washington Free Beacon
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on November 30, 2012
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The United States will seek to block an “alarming” Russian proposal to give a United Nations telecommunications group control over the Internet, a senior State Department official said on Thursday.
“We will actively oppose the Russian proposal,” Terry Kramer, head of the U.S. delegation to a U.N. conference in Dubai, told reporters.
U.S. to oppose Russian plan to give U.N. control of Internet | Washington Free Beacon
Somebody should tell the Russians to go to hell. Who do they think they are?
Great, Russia’s Crops Just Failed
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on November 12, 2012
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While everyone else was worrying about hurricanes, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization quietly published its own news of a disaster, the body’s November “Food Outlook” report. It seems Russian wheat production has crashed by 30%, owing to freakishly severe droughts, the result of an epic heat wave last summer (remember the horrific Russian wildfires a few months ago?).
