Australia is a long way from the US. I left Washington on 4 July of all dates for Melbourne, there to deliver the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission’s annual Gandel lecture, a great privilege for me. Especially at a time of enormous turmoil in the Middle East and elsewhere, I wanted to explain America’s ongoing abdication from international responsibility, and why, hopefully, it was only temporary (although it will last all eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency).
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John R. Bolton, a former US ambassador to the UN, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
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