"All of this is part of a charm offensive that's designed to lull the United States and Europe into more negotiations over the nuclear weapons program, which is simply intended to buy Iran more time to get closer to its 20-year-plus objective of getting deliverable nuclear weapons," Bolton tells Newsmax. Some say he may wish to talk directly with the United States about Iran's nuclear program. Hassan Rouhani has been sworn in as Iran's new president and he's promising to be less antagonistic to the West. The terrorist group is "very adaptive" and is a "threat that doesn't go away just because we hope it will." "So trying to imagine that you can redefine al-Qaida to suit your purposes was always a mistake," Bolton said. "It means that al-Qaida continues even when, for example, we kill Osama bin Laden." "In its history it has had central control from the al-Qaida core over its affiliates," Bolton said, adding that one of al-Qaida's strengths is the "discretion and independence" it has given the al-Qaida groups in Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Maghreb in North Africa. "It's a mistake to think that al-Qaida was ever organized like a corporation or a military hierarchy. "That aids their narrative, that the war on terror is over," he says. That's also part of the unwillingness to see that the terrorists really do constitute a threat, that they are still at war with us whether we want to be at war or not."īolton agrees that the Obama administration is splitting hairs by differentiating between various al-Qaida factions, and is wrong in trying to portray al-Qaida as just a fragment of its former self.
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Nidal Hasan is on trial for the Fort Hood shootings, which the administration described as workplace violence by a lone wolf - not really part of the international terrorist threat. "Ironically, just as we're looking at these events in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East, Maj. "We're in a much weaker position and that's attributable at the macro level to the incorrectness of Obama's world view, that terrorism really isn't that much of a threat, that you can treat it not as a war against us – which it is – but random, occasional, localized acts of violence. position against the terrorist threat that the Obama administration has brought about by not recognizing that we're in a global war on terror and basically trying to argue that the war was basically over. "It raises the larger and obviously more important question about the effect of the weakening of the U.S. Sitting where I am I certainly can't second-guess their conclusion that it was real, and if people thought it was a real threat, we really didn't have any option than to announce the closures. "Presumably the evaluation that the intelligence analyst gave to it was whether it was a ruse or whether it was real. If that is an accurate description of what we heard, though, it's ironically a repudiation of the Obama administration's whole story line on al-Qaida being on the road to defeat, al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan being a tiny sliver of what it used to be and really not responsible for operations worldwide, because that intercept proves exactly the opposite."Īsked if it were possible that at least part of al-Qaida's objective may have been realized - to demonstrate that it has the ability to shut down American embassies just by online and phone chatter - Bolton responds: "You can always speculate about whether this was real or not. "In general, this is another case of the administration leaking information which it thinks helps. "But if in fact it did happen, obviously it's not helpful to the United States to leak about it so that now if Zawahiri had any doubts, he knows that we have heard what he said. "I was very surprised when I heard reference to and leaks from the Obama administration about this specific telephone call because it would be very unusual for Zawahiri to break communication security and be caught this way," he says.
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In an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV on Tuesday, Bolton discusses the terrorism threat - reportedly revealed in a telephone call from al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri - that compelled the United States to close many of its embassies. He is now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a frequent contributor to Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. ambassador from August 2005 to December 2006. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells Newsmax the Obama administration's leaking of information about the new al-Qaida threat is "very dangerous" and could aid the enemy.īolton also says Obama still fails to recognize that we are "at war" with terrorism.Īnd he asserts that the new Iranian president's promise to be less antagonistic to the West is merely a "charm offensive" designed to buy Iran more time to develop nuclear weapons.īolton served as U.N.
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