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EU's loss may be West's gain

By John Bolton March 23, 2010 @ 12:46pm

European Union leaders will meet again this week on Greece's fiscal crisis and the ongoing financial turmoil it is causing. To most Americans, the EU's problems seem remote, given our own turmoil over President Obama's zeal to radically restructure the U.S. health care system. In fact, however, profound implications for trans-Atlantic relations over the long term lie just beneath the often-impenetrable EU financial jargon. Here's why:

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Obama's Global Failure

By John Bolton March 23, 2010 @ 12:17pm

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government announced a West Bank housing project during Vice President Joseph Biden’s recent visit—perhaps accidentally, perhaps not—the Obama administration immediately condemned it, privately and publicly. Netanyahu tried to make amends, prompting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to boast publicly that openly slamming a close American ally had produced positive result…

Wartime Contracting hearing to focus on managing contractors during Iraq drawdown

By Clark Irwin March 19, 2010 @ 10:28am

ARLINGTON, VA, March 19, 2010 – A March 29 hearing of the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan will focus on planning for the drawdown of nearly 100,000 contractor employees in Iraq as the United States draws down its military forces there.

 

By agreement with the Iraqi government, U.S. military forces are to be entirely out of Iraq by the end of December 2011. As an interim ste…

Obama Surrenders Gulf Oil to Moscow

By Washington Times March 18, 2010 @ 12:09am

 The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. While the United States attempts to shift gears to alternative fuels to battle the purported evils of carbon emissions, Russia will erect oil derricks off the Cuban coast.

 

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Israel and The Crisis with Obama

By John Bolton March 17, 2010 @ 12:11pm

Benjamin Netanyahu's first term as Israeli prime minister collapsed in 1999 in part because he had an unhappy relationship with President Bill Clinton. It is understandable then that Mr. Netanyahu's current government had, until last week, strived to stay close to President Barack Obama.

 

That strategy would have been entirely sensible if Mr. Obama were simply another president in the long line since Franklin Roosevelt w…