“Europe fiddling while Rome burned”

US’s former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, he was “very worried” about the well-being of Israel.

“We have fiddled away four years, in which Europe tried to persuade Iran to give up voluntarily,” he complained. “Iran in those four years mastered uranium conversion from solid to gas and now enrichment to weapons grade… We lost four years to feckless European diplomacy and our options are very limited.”

“I felt we were watching Europe fiddling while Rome burned,” he said. “It’s still fiddling.”

“Bolton: I’m ‘very worried’ for Israel” by David Horowitz, Jerusalem Post, June 27, 2007