National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, the second in President Trump’s 14 month term in office, has been on the outs for awhile, and today was announced to be removed in the days to come. He will be replaced by ultrahawk John Bolton.
Gen. McMaster, a three-star general, was said to be out of favor with Trump almost immediately, and for months there’ve been reports the Pentagon was looking for something else for him to do. McMaster, however, will request retirement rather than get shipped to Afghanistan.
That leaves Bolton, a troublingly pro-war character who reportedly has been meeting with Trump on foreign policy matters, to take up the position, effectively April 9. Bolton’s recent writing have centered around advocating a US attack on North Korea, though in the past he has also advocated US attacks on myriad other countries, virtually anyone the US has anything more than a token disagreement with.
Bolton previously served, briefly, as the Bush Administration’s Ambassador to the UN, though this was only a recess appointment, with Democrats and Republicans blocking both a formal appointment in 2005, and refusing to confirm him, forcing him out in 2007. Since then, he’s mostly written privately to advocate assorted wars, will advocating for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK), which was at the time on the US list of terrorist organizations, but was subsequently removed.
The MeK is part of Bolton’s long-time obsession with pushing for a US attack on Iran, which has led to protracted advocacy for US military aggression and desperate attempts to sway public opinion in such a way as a make such a war more politically viable. With Trump already set to kill the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, he finally has a National Security Adviser who will not only back such a move, but keep pushing for further escalation of tensions until the bombs start falling on Tehran.
How much this means for US foreign policy isn’t clear, but it can’t possibly be a good sign, despite CNN’s report Bolton promised not to “start any wars.” Bolton has previously been mentioned as a candidate in several of Trump’s appointments, and has always been the most hawkish, most dangerous man on the list.
The problem is that the anti Trump people love Trump’s foreign policy. Therefore there is no push back on these appointments of mad men and mad women. And there is no push back because both parties are controlled by the arms merchants, the CIA, Israel and their agents in AIPAC. who will fight till the last American drop of blood is spilled and the last American dollar is spent. So, while the liberals, Democrats, and many Republicans obsess over the idiot Mueller investigation , they are silent as the country gets closer and closer to nuclear war. Do they really think in such a war there will be a winner? And, by the way Bolton, now a war hawk was a chicken hawk when his time to serve came. Amazing how the further these cowards are away from serving the braver they become.
From Tulsi Gabbard’s Facebook page:
“McMaster is out. Trump’s choice of John Bolton to replace him, following his pick of Pompeo to be Secretary of State, continues the extreme warhawk neocon takeover of the White House. Bolton helped build the case of WMD lies that was used to invade Iraq. Bolton still champions that war today.
“I can’t think of anyone more dangerous than John Bolton to be the National Security Adviser. Pompeo and Bolton are standard bearers for the interventionist neocon foreign policy establishment, addicted to regime change wars, without any thought of the deathly cost or consequence.”
https://www.facebook.com/VoteTulsi/posts/1728481240541621
How can you even bear to write such a gentle kind story on someone not just hawkish but deserving of being hung drawn and quartered, in the public square, with all the media concentrating on the clapping crowds and the drooping mustache.
Even the choice of him as US ambassador for the UN, which we know always needs a disgracefully anti-peace person eg John Negroponte, Madeleine Albright, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Samantha Power and the brilliant Nikki Haley, could only be made in a recess because he was known to be so extreme( and in his short term did very damaging things). Trump has excelled himself in finding the least suitable person out of 300 million possible.
cCngratulations, MAGA.
What happened to my comment???
ps Please do not put any more photos of John Bolton. Even the name is enough!