FORMER U.N. AMBASSADOR JOHN BOLTON ON U.S. FAILURE TO STAND BY ISRAEL

Bolton concludes his analysis:

The harm caused by US weakness on the Gaza blockade issue will reach far beyond the Middle East. Worldwide, America's friends and allies increasingly realize that President Obama won't stand with them in controversial circumstances. Accordingly, those closest to us will calibrate their own interests more carefully to hedge against US weakness, step by step distancing themselves from us.

That will inexorably accelerate the pace of our debilitation -- thus actually further increasing Obama's self-imposed weakness, undermining US positions worldwide.

The really grim news is that we face at least 2½ more years of such Obama policies.

Me: I don't see how Obama's policies can have any other effect, and yes, 2 1/2 years can't go by fast enough.