Obama's Failed Iran Policy -- Is he now preparing to accept nuclear Iran ?

Clearly Obama's happy talk hasn't impressed crazy Mahmoud and the Iranians that Obama means business. Nor has his toothless policy of pushed backed deadlines for Iran to comply or face some really serious harsh words from Hilary and Barack done anything other than allow Iran to keep moving forward toward nuke capability.

John Bolton weighs in today:

Bolton: Obama's 'Troubling' Gulf Policy [Robert Costa]

On Sunday, new reports from the Persian Gulf revealed that the U.S. and its allies are stepping up their military defenses in the region. National Review Online asked John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, for his take on the developments. Bolton calls the reports “troubling,” since “there is a risk that the new weapons system being delivered reflect a conscious decision within the Obama administration to accept that Iran will become a nuclear-weapons state, and that these shipments are the basis of the ‘defense umbrella’ that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned last year.”

“Supplementing the defense capabilities of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries is entirely proper, and was planned out during the Bush administration,” says Bolton. “Providing additional equipment and capabilities will help protect the Arab states of the Gulf region against possible provocations or retaliation, and also enhance the security of deployed American forces in the region.” The new equipment, he adds, “should, of course, be consistent with maintaining Israel’s qualitative edge in the region, which U.S. administrations have supported for decades on a bipartisan basis.”

Still, Bolton says he remains “worried” that the reports show “at bottom, how the Obama administration was prepared to acquiesce on a nuclear Iran, once it became clear that diplomacy and sanctions would fail.”

“We have obviously reached that point were the failure is evident,” says Bolton. “I worry that ‘Plan B’ for the administration is simply to hope that a nuclear Iran can be contained and deterred.” That, he says, “is a big mistake, both in how to handle Iran and in ignoring the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other states in the region, who will not sit by and leave Iran with a nuclear advantage. All of that means a radically more dangerous and unstable Middle East, which will not be alleviated by a relatively small increase in weapons for the GCC states.”