By Ruthie Blum
PRAISE:
“Whether Barack Obama is one other Jimmy Carter is sadly not only educational hypothesis. Carter used to be undesirable sufficient, particularly within the center East, yet Obama is shut on his heels. A moment Obama time period may well good carry a nuclear Iran, a militantly anti-Israeli Egypt, and the overthrow of the pro-American Arab monarchies. the USA must get up to what's occurring, and Ruthie Blum's booklet is simply the price ticket. Let's wish she does not need to write a sequel.”
—John Bolton
Former U.S. ambassador to the United international locations
“The esteemed author and commentator Ruthie Blum has produced a well timed and crucial account of President Obama’s betrayal of an established U.S. best friend, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and its results for America’s very important national-security pursuits. simply as vital, through putting Obama’s mishandling of the present pan-Arab populist wave opposed to the backdrop of then-president Jimmy Carter’s betrayal of longtime U.S. best friend the shah of Iran, Blum demonstrates the undying fact of George Santayana’s lament that ‘those who fail to profit from the errors in their predecessors are destined to copy them.’”
—Caroline B. Glick
Senior contributing editor, The Jerusalem submit, and senior heart East fellow, heart for safeguard Policy
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