Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton offers Commentary his assessment of President Obama’s foreign-policy priorities.
Bolton contends the president’s policies are based on the following factors: a disinterest in foreign and national-security policy, no sense that the rest of the world is dangerous or threatening to America, and a vision “embedded in a carapace of naive internationalism.”
These factors lead Bolton to conclude that Obama’s foreign-policy agenda will features arms reduction, an international global-warming pact, and an increased emphasis on “global governance” and “international law.”
Barack Obama’s blueprint for the United States spells trouble for American autonomy, self-governance, and defense, all key elements of national sovereignty. His undisguised indifference to repeated diminutions of that sovereignty is entirely consistent with the views of his European admirers, who, at their level, would like to see their nation-states dissolve into the European Union. In the end, however, the United States is exceptional and will not melt into any larger or global union; it will simply become less able to protect itself and its constitutional decision-making system. That is clearly where our first post-American president’s policies will take us.
