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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Deal Was Betrayed by Its Abysmal Record]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, President Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the failed Iran nuclear deal. The president has famously referred to it as &ldquo;the worst deal in history.&rdquo; Its very premise has been betrayed by its own abysmal track record over the past two years.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FDR's 'Rattlesnake' Rule and the North Korean Threat]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2017/09/05/fdrs-rattlesnake-rule-the-north-korean-threat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. By these words in a Sept. 11, 1941, fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt authorized US wa&#195;&#162;?&#194;&#166;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Is Our Last Diplomatic Hope for North Korea]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international-affairs/346380-opinion-bolton-china-is-our-last-diplomatic-hope-for</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice acknowledged last week that America's policies regarding North Korea's nuclear-weapons program over the last three administrations had failed. She said, rightly, "You can call it a failure. I accept that characterization of the efforts of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Military Options for North Korea]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[North Korea test-launched on Friday its first ballistic missile potentially capable of hitting America&rsquo;s East Coast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Choice on North Korea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/28/john-bolton-choice-up-to-china-editorials-debates/101044758/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For 25 years, U.S. presidents, Republican and Democratic alike, have tried persuasion (through diplomacy) and coercion (through economic sanctions) to induce North Korea to abandon its nuclear-weapons and ballistic-missile programs. All these efforts have failed. Pyongyang happily...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Resolute Message for China]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From Taiwan to North Korea, Trump can make clear to Xi that America is no longer in retreat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Parting Betrayal of Israel]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Obama%E2%80%99s+Parting+Betrayal+of+Israel&amp;rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS645US645&amp;oq=Obama%E2%80%99s+Parting+Betrayal+of+Israel&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.695j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Obama%E2%80%99s+Parting+Betrayal+of+Israel&amp;tb</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, on the eve of Hanukkah and Christmas, Barack Obama stabbed Israel in the front.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has a Point About NATO]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/09/27/trump-has-point-about-nato/fPupu7BotmXhXWQyQo2RBP/story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump is calling for a debate about improving and strengthening NATO. The debate is well worth having.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Trump's Foreign Policy Gets Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=What+Trump%E2%80%99s+Foreign+Policy+Gets+Right&amp;oq=What+Trump%E2%80%99s+Foreign+Policy+Gets+Right&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.56j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP nominee&rsquo;s speech last week was a serious contribution]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton State Department Email Saga Keeps Worsening]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-email-saga/article/2000941</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For alumni of U.S. national-security departments and agencies, Hillary Clinton&#195;&#162;??s email saga is mind-numbing. The publicly available information makes clear she and her aides violated so many elementary security prohibitions that alumni are speechless. They wonder, had they done what...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Unilateralism in Paris Pointless Without Congress]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boltonyoo-paris-climate-deal-not-binding-20151201-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As more than 190 nations meet this week to negotiate an agreement to limit greenhouse gases, President Obama finds himself in a terrible bind.On one side is international pressure to vest any climate deal with what international law considers to be binding legal force. On the other is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Just Fell for a Classic Russian Ruse]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2015/10/26/obama-just-fell-for-a-classic-russian-ruse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Recent Russian efforts to magnify its Middle East influence have been accompanied by a seeming surge in Kremlin &ldquo;reasonableness.&rdquo; In fact, Russian calls for new Syrian elections and sharing intelligence with Western powers are nothing more than exercises in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Benghazi Still Makes a Difference]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only in Perry Mason stories does the real culprit break down in open court. After Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s now-immortal Capitol Hill outburst about investigations into the deadly 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya&mdash;&ldquo;What difference, at this point, does it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/opinion/to-stop-irans-bomb-bomb-iran.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[FOR years, experts worried that the Middle East would face an uncontrollable nuclear-arms race if Iran ever acquired weapons capability. Given the region&#194;&#146;s political, religious and ethnic conflicts, the logic is straightforward.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Egypt's Courageous Warrior]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/john-bolton-egypt-courageous-warrior-article-1.2076747</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat traveled to Jerusalem in 1977, he shattered decades of isolation and war with Israel to search for peace. No single act in the former general&rsquo;s remarkable career showed more courage. In 1981, Muslim Brotherhood assassins made Sadat pay with his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Reckless Taliban Swap]]></title>
							<link>http://nypost.com/2014/06/02/the-high-cost-of-obamas-reckless-taliban-swap/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The friends and family of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are understandably happy and relieved that he is free from Taliban captivity after five years.But we, as citizens, must nonetheless ask whether President Obama&rsquo;s deal to obtain Bergdahl&rsquo;s release &mdash; involving the exchange of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;The Great Successor&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204879004577108552536673724.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il's death opens a period of intense danger and risk, but also potentially enormous opportunity for America and its allies. Kim's health had obviously been poor for some time, and his regime has worked to ensure an orderly transition to his son, Kim Jong...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[European Union's Democratic Deficit]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/26/eus-democratic-deficit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The crisis of the euro, the common currency of 17 European Union members, continues unabated. Because of massive, sustained budget deficits by several eurozone countries, some could default on their sovereign debt obligations, or the euro itself might disintegrate, profoundly affecting...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saving the Euro is Up to Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/it_europe_crisis_iHRIXorSskUW2JOL8BUFUI</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The  recent riots in Athens, London and Rome signal rising insecurity and  uncer tainty within the European Union. The most profound and widespread  challenge is the growing sense that the EU's common currency, the euro,  may not survive in its present form, if at all.The obvious  reason...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe &amp; the Consequences of Obama's Agenda]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/10/27/amb-john-bolton-midterm-elections-europe-sarkozy-greece-pensions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dramatic developments in Europe in the past  few weeks have graphically demonstrated the importance of America&rsquo;s  upcoming November 2 elections. Coming midway through President Obama&rsquo;s term, there is little doubt these elections constitute a referendum on his philosophy,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nation Building Shouldn't Be Our Objective]]></title>
							<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article7128257.ece</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[William Hague&rsquo;s quick trip to Washington on Friday was timely indeed. Just after assuming office, the new Foreign Secretary had stressed that "it is our most urgent priority&hellip; to make sure we get a grip on what is going on in Afghanistan". Arriving right on the heels of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/obama-s-next-three-years-15314</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Where is Barack Obama&rsquo;s foreign policy headed? In answering, one must accept a measure of humility. Predicting American policy makes more fools than sages. That goes double for foreign policy, as analysts must anticipate not only the actions of the United States but of foreign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dick Cheney: Conservative of the Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34906</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[It Followed the Standard International Leftist Line]]></title>
							<link>http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTg5NDc1MzllMDYxOGUwZjYzZjNjYzFhYjdlM2NlNmM=</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thursday, December 10, 2009Bolton: Obama's 'Pedestrian, Turgid, and Uninspired' Address   [Robert Costa]Earlier today, Pres. Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony in Oslo. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells NRO that President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama's Dithering is Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bolton18-2009oct18,0,4090854.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OpinionOctober 18, 2009Copyright &#194;&#169; 2009, The Los Angeles Times Terms of Service &#124; Privacy Policy &#124; Los Angeles Times, 202 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012 &#124; Copyright 2009]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Albatross]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/albatross_e6ond8gKEX5AkdKPg5uXqO</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Are Further From Eliminating Tehran's Threat]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703628304574452933624279114.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Medal for Mary Robinson]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342152496390582.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama&#8217;s decision to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson has generated unexpected but emotionally charged opposition. Appointed by then-U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan as high commissioner for human rights in 1997-2002, Ms. Robinson had a controversial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Has the CIA's Back -- In His Sights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/22/obama-has-the-cias-back-in-his-sights/?feat=home_commentary</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Election Process a 'Sham']]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23744.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Bolton</author>
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