Posted on 04/09/2018 5:08:39 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
This week, John Bolton digs into his tenure as national security adviser, replacing Army Gen. H. R. McMaster and reshaping an administration that must respond to national security threats across the spectrum.
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Supporter of Bolton’s appointment argue that he is a “solid and experienced choice” who is not so dissimilar to McMaster and other mainstream strategists, and whose foreign policy views have already been vindicated in recent days.
In fact, Bolton brings many strengths to the office, such that his tenure could reap historic and positive dividends. His commitment to national security, combined with his ability to think strategically, could strengthen a Presidential administration that needs to build a comprehensive strategy on Russia and China, prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and secure the denuclearization of North Korea.
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In a recent interview, Bolton spoke approvingly of President Trump for pursuing, as Bolton puts it, “a Reaganite ‘peace through strength’ foreign policy.” Which is fine on Reaganite terms but can be dangerously misinterpreted. Reagan’s “peace through strength” did not include a “peace through preventive war” component. Reagan did not initiate preventive strikes against the Soviet Union or Communist China, both of which are far more formidable than North Korea. He was even willing to rebuke Israel’s preventive war against Iraq as a war crime on the same level as the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.
Thus, I believe the Bolton appointment holds great promise — given his genuine commitment to national security, capacity for building comprehensive and coherent strategies for dealing with nations such as Russia and China, and ability to leverage government bureaucracy and national media toward a Reaganite peace through strength policy — if, and only if, he refuses to tilt the Trump administration in an interventionist direction violating just war criteria.
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Huh? This is like saying the Obama administration would have held great promise if he refused to be a radical communist malcontent.
Why are these people so delusional that they'd assume a political appointee with a long career and we'll documented track record is suddenly NOT going to be what he had been all along?
Anybody Jimmah Cahtah doesn’t like has to be great. If Bolton was in command back in the 1970s, Iran wouldn’t be a regressive Mullahocracy run by maniacs who brutalized their people, support a gas using maniac in Syria and threaten to develop a nuclear weapon.
It was frowned upon when Obama appointed Tom Donilon, but now we have a TV political commentator as NSA
Yeah but he’s a political commentator who sees islam for what it is at least.
OL Jimmah is the reason of the mess in the mid east. And that should be made clear every time he opens his pie hole.
Hope he does better then when he was at the UN. He was supposed to gut it, but made it stronger.
Bolton was one of the architects of the 2003 Iraq invasion so he knows where all the neocon skeletons are buried.
We’ll know if Bolton has turned over a new leaf by how quickly the US military is extracted from Iraq and elsewhere.
I think he is a war mongering neocon. I hope im wrong.
but now we have a TV political commentator as NSA former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations as NSA.
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