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Bolton comments on Obama

hypocritexposer

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BOLTON: I was shocked at how poor his knowledge of history is. If he thinks tensions between Europe and the United States are of recent vintage, particularly during the Bush administration, he really needs some additional schooling.

If you go back to the time of the Revolution, there have been differences between Europeans and Americans very reminiscent of things we've seen in more recent years. If you read the diaries and letters of the British and American top political and military leaders in World War II, they were at each other's throats. Lord Allenbrook, the British commander, didn't think Dwight Eisenhower was fit to be Supreme Commander or Americans were fit to fight.

This goes back and forth all the time. The idea that, suddenly, he's going to change this as a matter of attitude is itself a form of arrogance on his part.

BOLTON: I think it's a continuing campaign. I really don't know that he has yet adjusted to being president. I think he's going to come into some hard lessons at this NATO meeting. He's not going to get the support that he wants and that we should have from our NATO allies on Afghanistan. They're having trouble agreeing on a new NATO secretary-general. This is the real world of international geopolitics, different from the blue smoke and mirrors of the G-20 meeting, and I think it'll be a wake-up call for him. At least, I hope it will.
 
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