Who is John Bolton? Will America Go to War?

John Bolton ???

President Trump announced

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump Mar 22

I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/9.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/john-bolton-is-wrong-choice-for-national-security-advisor-ret-us-army-officer.html

John Bolton for National Security Advisor is a ‘step in the wrong direction,’ says retired US Army officer

• Trump on Thursday named John Bolton to succeed H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor.
• Bolton for NSA is a step in the wrong direction.

During the 2016 campaign, then-Candidate Trump distinguished himself because he rejected the failed status-quo policies of the post-9/11 world. His anti-establishment message resonated strongly with Americans and catapulted him to the White House.

Trump's selection on Thursday of John Bolton to succeed H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor is a step in the wrong direction, as Bolton is as status-quo as they come.

You can say one thing for the former UN Ambassador, however: he has been consistent throughout his career. Consistently wrong, that is. In 1998, Bolton was one of 25 co-authors who published an open letter to President Clinton advocating for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Because it would be too difficult to confirm whether or not Iraq was genuinely disbanding its WMD program, Bolton's letter warned, "in the not-too-distant future we will be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether Iraq does or does not possess such weapons."

As a consequence, the authors said the president must show "a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing."

"You can say one thing for the former UN Ambassador: he has been consistent throughout his career. Consistently wrong, that is."

Yet diplomacy had in fact not failed, and Saddam had actually disarmed. Perhaps the most damning finding from Bolton and his colleagues was this claim: "Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater."

After more than 15 full years later, the spiral of chaos and violence unleashed in 2003 continues to burn in Iraq (and now Syria), and thousands of U.S. troops are still deployed there.

One might give the Ambassador some slack for having been wrong before-the-fact, but one would expect that with the passage of time and as the true scope of the failure has become clear, Bolton would have grudgingly acknowledged that fact.

Yet in an opinion article penned more than a decade later—and despitemountains of evidence to the contrary—Bolton remains emphatic in his claims that the invasion was a good idea.

In the 2016 article, Bolton asserted that by, "eliminating Saddam's threat to Middle Eastern peace and security, the 2003 invasion fully justified itself." Leaving Saddam in power, Bolton argued, "would have all but guaranteed further conflict with other Arab states, and a resumed quest for weapons of mass destruction."

The evidence not only doesn't support that theory, it directly refutes it: as was confirmed, the UN weapons inspectors had successfully disarmed Saddam, he had dismantled his nuclear facilities, and with the sanctions then in place, he would have had no way to reconstitute the program and would have posed no threat to the region. Moreover, al-Qaeda would never have carved out a presence in Iraq and ISIS would never have risen. Unfortunately, that's not the only incidence of Bolton's suspect judgment.

Earlier this year, Bolton argued that "talking to the North Koreans is a waste of time." Yet Trump has now scheduled historic talks with North Korea's leader, and it appears the president actually does value talking to the North Koreans.

On Iran, Trump has made no secret of the fact he considers the nuclear agreement with Tehran to be "the worst deal ever," and he wants to negotiate a better one. He does not, however, seek regime change. As president-elect in December 2016, Trump categorically said the United States, "will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn't be involved with." Bolton, however, recently advocated the opposite. "Our goal should be regime change in Iran," he stated.

Bolton will have to temper some of his personal views and recognize that the role of the National Security Advisor is not to push his own agenda, but to advise the president on how best to accomplish his objectives. George W. Bush's NSC chief Stephen J. Hadley, warned that whoever fills the role must avoid "using the privileged position accorded to the National Security Advisor in this process to 'tilt' the process in favor of the outcome favored by the National Security Advisor."

Over the past 17 years, the total number of people estimated to have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria since those wars began is close to 819,000. Using a so-called 'preventive' strike in North Korea would almost certainly explode into an all-out war, potentially resulting in a million deaths in the war's opening weeks.

Before advocating for either regime change in Iran or war in North Korea, Bolton must offer a credible plan for how the likely results will not harm U.S. interests and make the situation materially worse than it is today.

President Trump has had good instincts on several foreign policy matters since the 2016 campaign. If he does indeed hire Bolton to become his next National Security Advisor, let us hope that Trump does not sacrifice his good instincts in deference to Bolton's poor track record of advocating hawk-like impulses.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-bolton-syria-is-a-sideshow

John Bolton: Syria Is a ‘Sideshow’

Trump’s new national security adviser has been ambivalent over the years about the importance of the Syrian civil war. The real threat, he’s long argued, comes from Iran.

President Trump appears to be gearing up to bomb Syria, but his new national security adviser has said he believes Syria to be something of a “sideshow.”

It’s only John Bolton’s first week on the job as Trump’s national security adviser and all eyes are on him for clues about how the administration will respond to the apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria. So far, there have been just a few tea leaves to read in his 48-hour tenure in the White House. But before that Bolton left a slew of op-eds and Fox News appearances offering some clues to his views on the war there.

The picture that emerges from his commentary is of a hawk who accepts much of the conservative catechism on Syria but hasn’t great enthusiasm for it.

“I believe since the Syrian civil war broke out nearly seven years ago that the subject of Syria is, sadly, tragic though it might be, is a sideshow in terms of the bigger strategic picture in the Middle East,” Bolton said on Fox in February, using his preferred epithet for the conflict.

“The subject of Syria is, sadly, tragic though it might be, is a sideshow in terms of the bigger strategic picture in the Middle East.”

— John Bolton

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/10/tom-bossert-to-resign-512252

Bolton, the former Bush-era diplomat known for his hawkish stances, was installed Monday as President Donald Trump's national security adviser. By Tuesday, the White House said Bossert would be leaving his position.

KeyWords Bush-era diplomat!!

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/22/17153338/john-bolton-national-security-adviser-trump-hr-mcmaster

President Donald Trump finally jettisoned National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on Thursday afternoon. His replacement is John Bolton, the former ambassador to the United Nations in the Bush administration — and one of the most radically hawkish voices in American foreign policy.

Bolton has said the United States should declare war on both North Korea and Iran. He was credibly accused of manipulating US intelligence on weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War and of abusive treatment of his subordinates. He once “joked” about knocking 10 stories off the UN building in New York. That means his new appointment to be the most important national security official in the White House has significant — and frightening — implications for Trump’s approach to the world.

Bolton’s new job was announced on Thursday evening, when the president tweeted that McMaster planned to resign and Bolton would replace him. “I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, [John Bolton] will be my new National Security Advisor,” Trump wrote.

Bolton had been rumored to be the frontrunner for the job for months, but that doesn’t make the pick any less jarring. His track record in government, connections to anti-Muslim groups, and stated views in op-eds and public speeches all suggest that he will push Trump to take extremely dangerous positions on issues like North Korea, Iran, and ISIS.

“I operate on the assumption that John Bolton should be kept as far away from the levers of foreign policy as possible,” says Christopher Preble, the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “I think I would rest easy if he was dog catcher in Stone Mountain, Georgia. But maybe not.”

Bolton’s elevation illustrates the degree to whichTrump is influenced by the conservative infotainment sphere, most notably Fox News — where Bolton has long been an on-air fixture. He was, prior to this appointment, a marginal figure in Washington foreign policy circles since his departure from the Bush administration. But he got himself one of the top jobs in the country because of his savvy work in the world of conservative media and advocacy groups.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805309/15-years-of-war-in-iraq-a-legacy-john-bolton-has-yet-to-reckon-with

15 Years Of War In Iraq, A Legacy John Bolton Has Yet To Reckon With

It's the 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro looks back and forward with Azmat Khan, Future of War Fellow at New America.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805309/15-years-of-war-in-iraq-a-legacy-john-bolton-has-yet-to-reckon-with

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/us-syria-troops/556931/

It's Really Hard to Say What the U.S. Wants in Syria

The White House says troops will stay to defeat ISIS. Beyond that is anybody’s guess.

Editors Notes:

Duh its Easy 2 see Israel wants control of Middle East. It;s been a war with Middle East and Israel over last 1000's of years.. How about this USA back out of this war. And Force Israel and Middle Eaat to Come to peace! Don't take no one's side! We Want Peace Not war! Too many lives lost and Bloodshed!!

https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2018/04/09/tom-cotton-john-bolton-and-cambridge-analytica

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/23/john-bolton-hawk-itching-war

The good news first: Jared Kushner will not be replacing HR McMaster as Donald Trump’s third national security adviser. Nor will the clueless education secretary, Betsy DeVos. But that is about the only ray of sunshine surrounding Trump’s anointing former UN ambassador John Bolton and his Neville Chamberlain moustache. 

The explosive Bolton – who is the kind of uber-hawk who will always choose conflict over conciliation – now steps into the most important national security job in government that does not require Senate confirmation.

Granted, it is possible to derive a glimmer of I-told-you-so satisfaction from the total collapse of the establishment theory that a race of bemedaled generals and oil-industry titans could contain Trump. In truth, we now confront the frightening image of Trump Unchained, like a fugitive from a low-rent 1960s movie about Hercules.

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/john-bolton-threat-home-abroad-120002448.html

On April 9th, General H.R. McMaster will vacate the National Security Advisor position for a man widely viewed as his temperamental and intellectual opposite: former U.N. ambassador John Bolton.

Bolton rose to prominence in the Bush (43) administration’s first term as the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, where he frequently clashed not only with his Bush administration colleagues but with career government servants at the State Department and the U.S. Intelligence Community. And it was those confrontations, along with credible allegations of abuse of surveillance powers and Intelligence Community analysts, that ultimately led to Bolton’s exit from the administration.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Maryland, U.S. February 24, 2017. Bolton was appointed by Preisdent Trump as his new national security advisor.REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

The legacy of those confrontations is worth examining as Bolton now ascends to an unprecedented position of power and presidential access in the Trump administration. The wildcard in this new “Bolton era” is whether a House and Senate so riven by partisan fractures is up to the task of reigning in Bolton’s—and thus Trump’s—most reckless impulses on security issues, here and around the world.

Right in the middle of the Bush administration’s attempt to get Bolton confirmed as America’s ambassador to the U.N. in April 2005, the New York Times ran a story by Douglas Jehl raising questions as about Bolton’s use of a then-obscure NSA practice known as “unmasking” (see Sec. 7.2 of USSID 18).

It was then-Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) who wanted to know why Bolton wanted information on the identities of other American officials picked up in conversations by NSA. As the Times noted.

A Democratic official said Mr. Dodd appeared to be trying to determine whether Mr. Bolton’s requests focused on any particular subject area or official, and what use he might have made of the information. Unless it gets a warrant from a special court, as in cases of suspected terrorists, the agency is not permitted to identify as a deliberate target an American citizen or permanent resident for eavesdropping. But its global eavesdropping net regularly picks up communications involving Americans, including phone calls, faxes, e-mail messages and other communications.

Bolton claimed that he needed to know who the Americans in the intercepts were to better understand the intelligence. But the fact that the intercepts actually involved other Bush administration officials raised the possibility that Bolton was trying to keep tabs on his rivals.

The revelations about Bolton’s unusual interest in the identities of U.S. persons swept up in NSA’s collection activities was preceded earlier in the week by blunt descriptions of Mr. Bolton’s attempts to badger intelligence analysts who offered him unpalatable facts.

The highly respected former head of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), Carl W. Ford, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) on April 12, 2005 that Bolton was a “kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy.” By way of example, when then-INR analyst Christian Westermann wrote a note stating that Bolton had mischaracterized what U.S. intelligence agencies knew about an alleged Cuban biological warfare program, Bolton bypassed the entire INR chain of command to summon Westermann to his office to berate him, and allegedly tried to get him fired. And as the May 2005 SFRC report on the Bolton nomination made clear, that was hardly the only incident in which Bolton lashed out at analysts whose worked contradicted his policy line.

BUSH APPOINTS BOLTON TO U.N. JOB

BOLTON BEING FROM CLINTON ERA TO BUSH ERA?

QUESTIONS ARISE!

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https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805309/15-years-of-war-in-iraq-a-legacy-john-bolton-has-yet-to-reckon-with


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