John R. Bolton

John. R. Bolton: Obama the ditherer in chief His foreign policy brings to mind Jimmy Carter, or perhaps Ethelred the Unready. Weakness in American foreign policy in one region often invites challenges elsewhere, because our adversaries...

In this article: Barack Obama, Security Council, Mahmoud Abbas, Uranium, Ethelred the Unready, Benjamin Netanyahu, United Nations, Jimmy Carter, and Nicolas Sarkozy

...Republicans are furious. John Bolton, Bush's ambassador to the UN, has just told the BBC that it is no coincidence that Jimmy Carter and Al Gore also got the prize, but, not say, Ronald Reagan. He says the committee is "preaching...

In this article: Barack Obama, John Bolton, Militarism, Alfred Nobel, Al Gore, Norman Borlaug, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Nobel Prize

...in the past 8 years. Americans and people around the world can easily tell the difference between Clinton's humanitarian brand of diplomacy and John Bolton's arrogant belief in the use of force to achieve US goals. Bolton could have lived...

In this article: Bill Clinton, John Bolton, Kim Jong-il, Hillary Clinton, US, George W. Bush, and Laura Ling

...Carter.'' The president's tendency to apologize for "his country's pre-Obama history" is giving rise to disquiet among Americans who feel his administration is drifting from one foreign policy mistake to another, Bolton said. "Foreign...

In this article: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, U.N. Security Council, Tehran, Stanley A. McChrystal, Iranian hostage crisis, Los Angeles Times, and European Union

...'trust me' with plutonium. " And John R. Bolton, a longtime foe of diplomacy with Pyongyang, compared Mr. Bush to former presidents that he regards as weak on national security: Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. The briefings, an unnamed...

In this article: C.I.A., United States, North Korea, Syria, Israel, Plutonium, and Middle East

...Korea on nuclear weapons. Mr. Bolton blames Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for succumbing to a culture of appeasement at the State Department, rather than continuing to push for U.S. interests in diplomacy. Stephen Hess, a former...

In this article: George W. Bush, Iraq, White House, State Department, Recession, Tax, Social Security, Iraq War, and The Washington Times

...at boosting bilateral ties. 2002 May 6, US Under Secretary of State John Bolton accuses Cuba of trying to develop biological weapons, adding the country to Washington's list of "axis of evil" countries. 2002 May 12, Former U.S....

In this article: Cuba, Fidel Castro, United States, Raul Castro, Havana, Christopher Columbus, Che Guevara, Gerardo Machado, and Central Intelligence Agency

...and modest" in the way he accepted it. But he also found it striking that the committee has recognized former President Carter, former Vice President Al Gore and now Mr. Obama, but not Mr. Clinton. "They want to reward a particular kind of...

In this article: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, E mail, Mike Rosen, Most Valuable Player, Mark Salter, White House, Republican Party, and Dmitry Medvedev

...as irrelevant and corrupt. For the past four years, as the administration's point man on weapons of mass destruction, Bolton has worked to reverse decades of U.S. nonproliferation and arms control policies. He maintains that the system of...

In this article: State Department, United Nations, United States, Allegation, and North Korea