Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told TPMDC in an interview he isn’t sure President Obama is fully committed to a strategy in Afghanistan that would destroy the Taliban.
During an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday Bolton said he thinks Obama is “more concerned with beginning a process of withdrawal in the summer of 2011.”
“I fear that’s an example of sending at best, a mixed, or more likely, a signal of weakness that our adversaries interpret to our detriment,” Bolton said.
We also talked about nuclear proliferation and his stance on Obama’s overall national security strategy.
“I’m quite concerned about the president’s policies and the directions he’s taken,” he said.
I asked Bolton about recess appointments – since that’s how he secured his job under President George W. Bush.
“I’m always delighted to see presidents exercise their constitutional prerogatives and if it changes his mind on the utility of recess appointments I’ll be delighted to see,” Bolton said.
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