Bolton seems pretty confident when attributing the selling of arms to the Persian Gulf Arab states as a continuation of the Bush administration policies to help protect the Arab states if Iran were to retaliate from an Israeli strike. But he also worries this could be be a sign that the Obama administration is willing to accept Iran as a nuclear power and are beefing up defenses in the Gulf Arab states to create a ‘defense umbrella’ for the region, as Hillary Clinton mentioned last year.