From Melanie Phillips’ post yesterday in The Spectator (UK) (hat tip: Alcibiades):
Last week, I happened to meet America’s former Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. He was utterly dismayed about Annapolis. President Bush, he said, had torn up everything he believed in. Bolton thought the main reason this had happened was that Bush was simply so determined to get Iraq right that he had left absolutely everything else to Condoleezza Rice and the depredations of the State Department. The result was that at Annapolis, terror had been rewarded, its Israeli victims offered up as sacrificial lambs and the Bush doctrine fed to the flames.
The post deals as well with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad’s attempt to involve the UN in the post-Annapolis process without prior consultation with Israel or sharing the text of his proposed resolution. For more on that, see Ed Lasky’s valuable post in American Thinker.
From a comment to the Phillips post by John very Angry:
Perhaps we should ask those eminent academics, Walt and Mearsheimer to do an updated research study on the influence of the Jewish lobby on American Foreign Policy!
