If you really believe this, then you haven't been paying much attention over the last few years. When Trump was publicly criticizing the Obama administration over Syria, and beating Jeb Bush all over the stage in those debates over the stupid war in Iraq, he was publicly stating things that were 100% at odds with what John Bolton has been advocating in Washington for years.
I honestly never understood why Trump hired this dope in the first place.
The seal of the presidency shows an eagle holding arrows in one talon and olive branches of peace in the other. In foreign affairs, a president must be advised concerning matters of defense as well as peaceful relations. That is why you hire a ‘dope’ like Bolton as well as others who may have other opposing views. A president must have all options open to him.
We paid a huge price to invade Iraq and depose Saddam but by the time GW Bush had left Iraq, the country was on the path to a brighter future.
Obama burned down the Middle East and Iraq was burned much worse than most.
The lesson is that the United States is fundamentally unable to exert military power in any fashion that results in positive outcomes.
We can defeat any standing military in short order, but ,due to the polarization in Washington, we are fundamentally unable provide a long term strategy to stabilize the defeated country and rebuild the nation into a representative republic.
As soon as the Democrats get elected, the fledgling democracy is set upon by wolves and destroyed
The Obama Afghanistan war Good - Iraq War Bad mantra really meant - Iraq is succeeding and may become a lynchpin of stable Middle East but vulnerable to Iran and Radical Islam so it must be sacrificed whereas Afghanistan is a lost cause but, if properly managed, has the capability of bogging America down in a demoralizing, losing standoff that bleeds our military budget and wears out our soldiers, tanks and warplanes and grinds them into the dust , potentially doing permeant damage to America's long term military capability