Trump May Be President and CinC But He is Not in Charge of National Security

The power behind Trump wields a huge hammer and wants to use it

(On Iran, North Korea, possibly Russia and China)

Yeah, that John Bolton.

And of course, Bolton has a past record of statements to back up radical constant warmongering record, too. Parts are listed here from The Week which summarizes and defines who he is in stark headline:

Bolton’s Foreign Policy Conviction:  “War is always the best option 

no matter what.”

That pattern of thinking goes all the way back to the Vietnam War, which Bolton supported as a young man, while personally avoiding when he joined the Maryland National Guard – which BTW in those days was never deployed like they are now in cases in recent war years.

Also, like most Republicans of the “1980’s era” he supported Reagan's confrontational stance against the old USSR.

Then he was for George H.W. Bush's Persian Gulf War to turn back Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Even during the Bill Clinton years he advocated military interventions in the Balkans.

Later, he advocated the invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.

He also strongly advocated for war in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and as recently as 2015 defended the latter as the “correct decision,” despite our failure to find any WMD’s that was his Bolton's primary reason for supporting the war in the first place.

Along that path, Bolton also tried to assimilate Cuba into the “axis of evil net” by accusing them, on the basis of intelligence that was later debunked, of developing biological weapons and distributing them to Libya and Syria.

He later advocated the targeted assassination of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and then backed the Obama administration's military intervention there (which of course didn't stop him from blasting the Libyan action after it had devolved into Iraq-like chaos as “too little, too late.”

Bolton also thinks we should have invaded Syria and overthrown Assad shortly after the Iraq invasion of 2003, just as he's made clear over and over again that he thinks it would be a splendid idea for the U.S to bomb Iran — and perhaps even a good thing for Israel to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against them.

Then there's North Korea, one of the biggest problems confronting the Trump administration and the world. So, it’s no surprise to anyone that Bolton favors a massive preemptive strike against them, and that he waves away concerns about the potential for massive casualties and the possible negative consequences for America's strategic interests throughout the region. We would simply ask for China's help in bringing about a “controlled collapse of the North Korean regime.”

The cost of war against Iran and North Korea would be enormous, but for Bolton, the costs of avoiding war with them would clearly be greater he believes. So, war no matter what is his guide.

More recent Bolton clips here:

Bolton has a record of warmongering, bigotry, and a lot more

Bolton on Iran: “We need to bring that regime down”

Bolton on North Korea

Bolton says “Russian electoral interference may be a false flag” 

Bolton says Bernie Sanders supporters may have hacked the DNC to implicate Russia

This is the man Trump has as our National Security Adviser.

Folks, we are in deep trouble here and it will only get worse with this man bending Trump’s ear but that is in between Trump tweets.

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