Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton critiqued President Barack Obama's anti-terrorism policies in light of yesterday's reports of a large meeting of senior Al Qaeda leadership in South Yemen.
Appearing on WMAL's "Mornings on the Mall" in Washington D.C., Bolton questioned whether Obama was "lying about al Qaeda or ... blind to it by his ideology." Bolton concluded that it was the president is "blinded by the ideology and I have to say, I think that's worse than lying. You know, when you tell a lie, at least you know what you're doing. But if you can't see reality, which is the problem, I think, with the president, if reality stares you in the face and you see a parallel universe, that's not correctable."
When asked to explain what he meant by Obama's "ideology," Bolton said,
He doesn't think that Islamic extremism really exists. He thinks it's not a problem. He thinks the Muslim Brotherhood is just fine. He wishes they were still in control in Egypt. He thinks you can talk to these fanatics and reason with them and negotiate with them.
He's doing it not on the terrorist front but with the Ayatollahs in Tehran on the nuclear weapons program. and whether they're Shia or Sunni religious fanatics, they look at this guy and say "we're gonna take him to the cleaners" and they are.