From Fox News Sunday Roundtable.

On Obama’s performance at the U.N. last week:

I think he indulged himself in his speech at the General Assembly, which started out as sort of adolescent utopianism and then it went downhill.
He started out saying things like “no nation can dominate another.” He said no group of nations ought to be above others. Well, what about the Security Council on which he sat the very next day?
And then he said that — that alignments of nations rooted in the cleavages of the Cold War are senseless. Does that mean that NATO is senseless, that our alliance with Japan is senseless?
What do our allies think when they hear that, and when they hear, as we saw in that clip, Obama denigrating his own country and presenting himself as the man who will redeem America from its wickedness?
And he said that those of you who doubt the character of America should look at what we, meaning I, have done in the last eight months, including a bunch of gestures — including joining the Human Rights Council at the U.N., which is a body which we should take no pride in being on.
I thought it was a sorry performance. It did not advance our interest in the least.

On the state of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations:

[Obama] undermined the idea of negotiations when he came in and decided he would reinvent the world….
He imposed a demand on the Israelis of a settlement freeze. And the Israelis — left, right and center — will not accept a freeze, which involves Jerusalem.
The president insisted. And the Palestinians and the Arab states looked at this and said if the Americans are putting these unilateral demands on the Israelis, we are not going to negotiate. Abbas himself, the leader of the Palestinians, was in Washington a few months ago and he said, “We will not lift a finger until Israel complies.”
And the reason it’s a policy that makes no sense is because for 16 years, the Israelis and the Palestinians had negotiated without any preconditions. All of a sudden Obama imposes this, and negotiations have stopped.
What happened in New York this week is that the Obama administration caved in and has now abandoned this precondition. The Israelis are ready to negotiate and the Palestinians are still holding out wanting the freeze on settlements, which is not going to happen.

On the Biden vs. McChrystal strategy for Afghanistan:

Well, you’ve got the sage of Wilmington, the man who wanted Iraq split into three, arguing for a surgical strike policy.
Here is the irony and the problem. McChrystal is the world’s expert on this. He conducted exactly these surgical strikes, the late-night raids, on al Qaeda in Iraq, for four years. – And he was extremely successful. He killed hundreds of bad guys.
If there’s anybody on the planet who knows how to do it [counterterrorism], who knows all about it, knows its potential and its limitations, it’s McChrystal. And he’s the guy who says it can’t be done. He’s the guy who says, unless we have the counterinsurgency strategy, boots on the ground to protect the population, like the surge in Iraq, we will not succeed.
So when I hear the vice president, with his vast experience in this area, give the counter-argument, I think I know which way I want to go.