http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Paul%20Bolton
Most correct your post.
Bolton always loved a war he did not need to carry a rifle and risk his life in battle. Oddly I liked Bolton until I realized he was Bat Sh-t crazy relative to war. War is the last alternative to rational political discourse. War was Bolton’s first choice. Trump chose Bolton most unwisely. He fired Bolton most wisely.
Getting shot or shot at reassesses a persons priorities. I have not been shot at in battle as I was not in the military. I have been shot at.
I thus reassed my priorities. Bolton did not. He has never been shot at.
Rep Massie CRUSHED his President Trump endorsed primary opponent yesterday!
The importance of that, while it is good, is overstated.
No Secretary of State in the Trump administration was going to make foreign policy. That is done in the White House and the Secretary of State is tasked with carrying it out as far as their mission is concerned.
That was true in the GWBush and Obama administrations as well. Their secretaries of state were not always happy. Powell was always unhappy and Condi knew from her own White House experience where policy was made, but I think she was fine with that. All Hillary did was travel the world and do photo ops with world leaders - knowing she was not “making policy”. Kerry and Obama were on the same Marxist wave length, so Kerry had no conflict with what Obama and Valerie Jarret were doing. But altogether foreign policy is decided in the White House not in foggy bottom.
I think that all that would have happened if Bolton had been made secretary of state is that he would have been fired sooner than he was.