![]() "Six decades of Republican overreach and corrosive causes have instead led to the rise of Donald Trump and a foreign policy run by John Bolton, an economy guided by Larry Kudlow and a legal team led by conspiracy theorist Joseph DiGenova," Scarborough wrote in The Washington Post. One of Trump's most prominent critics from the right, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, located the appointment of Bolton as part of a larger phenomenon of conservatives losing their way. That would risk striking after the North has deliverable nuclear weapons, a much more dangerous situation. intelligence about North Korea, we should not wait until the very last minute. The threat is imminent, and the case against preemption rests on the misinterpretation of a standard that derives from prenuclear, pre-ballistic-missile times. Pre-emption opponents argue that action is not justified because Pyongyang does not constitute an “imminent threat.” They are wrong. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed.īolton's "shoot first, ask questions later" attitude toward volatile regions of the world was evident more recently as well, in his February editorial for The Wall Street Journal urging a preemptive strike against North Korea. The inconvenient truth is that only military action like Israel’s 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor in Iraq or its 2007 destruction of a Syrian reactor, designed and built by North Korea, can accomplish what is required. Nor will sanctions block its building a broad and deep weapons infrastructure. The inescapable conclusion is that Iran will not negotiate away its nuclear program. Take this excerpt from an editorial he wrote for The New York Times in 2015 that urged military action against Iran. More troubling than Bolton's professional background, though, is his thirst for war. He also became infamous during his tenure after being accused of trying to force out a pair of intelligence analysts who disagreed with him, as well as generally seeking to subvert the agenda of his more pragmatic boss, Secretary of State Colin Powell. Bush, Bolton helped put together the case that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction - an argument that ultimately proved to be tragically wrong. As under secretary of state for President George W. One of Bolton's biggest claims to fame was his unabashed support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which he still supports today even though Trump himself was outspokenly critical of it during the 2016 presidential election. President Donald Trump's new pick for national security adviser, former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, is nothing short of a sign that he plans on waging war.
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