John Bolton in Speech at 2014 CPAC conference

On Foreign Policy: Weak America means trouble in Russia, China, & Libya

Look at the Middle East, Russia's puppet Assad is still in power.
Russians are selling weapons to the Egyptian government for the first time since the early 1970s, threatening Israel.
Iran, working with Russia and running rings around Obama, Clinton and Kerry in nuclear arms talks.
In Latin America we see Russia re-establishing influence in Cuba and in Venezuela, threatening our own hemisphere.
In China you've got a major military build-up going on, building their first blue water Naval capability, ladies and gentlemen, while Obama scoffs at our declining Navy.
But worst of all, worst of all, is Libya. Libya is the paradigm of the Obama doctrine's failures. The attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 was a direct attack on the US.

We do not accept an America that is weak & declining. We do not accept an American military that is weak & poorly equipped, and in particular, we do not accept and American president who is weak, indecisive and apologetic about our country Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention Mar 7, 2014

On Homeland Security: We don't get peace via weakness; we get Putin invading

We meet at a time of true national security crisis, indeed, many crises, but our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama. This is a president who considers our strength part of our problem, that we are the cause of international tension.

Ignoring threats to our national security is the Obama doctrine, and the contrast with Ronald Reagan could not be clearer. Reagan believed in peace through strength, not isolationism, not multilateralism. Today, can you just imagine Ronald Reagan dealing with Vladimir Putin? Reagan understood that the principle task of the government is the protection of the United States.

We are not going to get peace through strength because we are not devoting the budget to it, but we're not going to get peace through weakness either. We're going to get what we see today in the Ukraine where Vladimir Putin has a strategy and Obama has nothing, where Putin has a growing defense budget and ours is shrinking.

Source: Speech at 2014 CPAC convention Mar 7, 2014

The above quotations are from Speeches to Conservative Political Action 2014 Conference. Click here for other excerpts from Speeches to Conservative Political Action 2014 Conference. Click here for other excerpts by John Bolton. Click here for a profile of John Bolton.
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