Bolton is the kind of guy who sees every skirmish we're not involved in as the second coming of
Munich, a sign of weakness that will lead to another iteration of some variant of the Third Reich. He knows a lot about the region, but is overly apt to think in neocon terms, that every foreigner is a blank slate waiting for us to write on. The reality, however, is that Syrian Sunnis don't want freedom for all - they want the freedom to step all over the Christians, Druze and Alawites in Syria, the way other Sunni Arab states do.