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Trump is "shredding" credibility with allies while China benefits, former national security advisor John Bolton says
CNBC (Business Website) ^ | 15 April 2025 | Natasha Turak

Posted on 04/15/2025 1:47:38 PM PDT by zeestephen

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To: zeestephen

John Bolton has turned into the nation’s tampon.

Mr. Ed knew more about national security.

I’m betting he has AOC on speed-dial.

His last unofficial briefing was found on a Joe Boluga
bubble gum wrapper, yes forty years ago.

George Soros is probably willing to pay good money for
Bolton’s views spewed in public. Bolton does it for free,
as far as we know. The verdict is still out.

When Bolton is approached by people who disagree with him
stridently, one can only guess he comeback is my brain, my
choice.


61 posted on 04/15/2025 3:40:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegence to the flag of te USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: zeestephen
Bolton has always been a smug elitist. From his Wikipedia page:

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"He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book: "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost." In a 2007 interview, Bolton explained his comment in the reunion book saying his decision to avoid service in Vietnam was because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from."

In his 2007 book, Surrender Is Not an Option, Bolton described his perception of the war as a "futile struggle", and that "dying for your country was one thing, but dying to gain territory that antiwar forces in Congress would simply return to the enemy seemed ludicrous to me. Looking back, I am not terribly proud of this calculation..."
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So, in summary, as a young man, he avoided service in a foreign war, allowing others to go in his stead, because he was just that much smarter than everybody else, including the national security decision makers.

Decades later, as one of those decision makers, he had no problem sending yet more young Americans into yet another meat grinder...because he was still that much smarter than everybody else.

Bolton is a coward, an egotist and pseudo-intellectual; the very epitome of the self-serving bureaucrat who wraps himself in the mantle of the flag he's been happy to let others fight and die for on his miserable, pathetic behalf. I suspect he maintains the big walrus mustache out of a sense of self-loathing, leaving that much less of himself he has to look at in the mirror.

62 posted on 04/15/2025 3:44:38 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: zeestephen

We all know that anytime someone wants the get the pure, unadulterated, unvarnished facts on Trump, Bolton is your go-to guy. Even angels line up to take notes when the walrus speaks.


63 posted on 04/15/2025 3:49:33 PM PDT by odawg
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To: zeestephen

John Bolton aka John Boltbrain


64 posted on 04/15/2025 3:56:18 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Joe 6-pack

Bolton: Outstanding Trooper, I don’t know of anyone who especially wanted to go there, but they did.


65 posted on 04/15/2025 4:04:18 PM PDT by kawhill ( The truly horrific part? Yes. He drowned himself in a bowl of soup. How does one...? How indeed)
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I entered ROTC in 1987. A lot of our cadre were Viet Nam vets, and I had nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for them. They made me a better person, and I would like to think, a better leader, but you would have to ask the soldiers I would go on to command in later years about that.

They were to a man, far better men than Bolton could ever hope to be.

66 posted on 04/15/2025 4:09:39 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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‘Trump is shredding the credibility of John Bolton’

Title fixed.


67 posted on 04/15/2025 4:20:15 PM PDT by CTyank
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To: zeestephen

Whatever Bolton claims, the opposite is almost virtually correct.


68 posted on 04/15/2025 4:21:19 PM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: zeestephen

John Bolton = Jim Cramer of foreign policy cred...


69 posted on 04/15/2025 5:18:32 PM PDT by Axenolith (Very few electric vehicle drivers will survive an apocalypse...)
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To: zeestephen

Who listens to this angry neocon. Please STFU. NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK!


70 posted on 04/15/2025 5:40:47 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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Bolton is one of the biggest political disappointments of my life.


71 posted on 04/15/2025 5:45:51 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: zeestephen
When will Gutfeld have John Bolton, the former President of Red Eye, on Gutfeld?

A classic example of why you should think twice about who you align yourself with.

72 posted on 04/15/2025 5:53:16 PM PDT by lewislynn
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To: zeestephen

And we should believe John Bolton why?


73 posted on 04/15/2025 7:23:20 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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