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Trump’s Next National Security Adviser, John Bolton, Is As Dangerous As You Remembered
One of the most notorious advocates for the Iraq War is set to advise the president on U.S. foreign policy.
Bolton is a notoriously hawkish former United Nations ambassador whose views don’t even align with the isolationist foreign policy platform on which Trump campaigned ―
He has called for bombing Iran and North Korea.
This does not bode well for diplomatic efforts, such as Trump’s apparent plan to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
In fact, Bolton said on Fox News earlier this month that he
predicts the meeting will fail ― which he suggested would likely lead to military action.
And last month, Bolton made a strong case for a strike on North Korea. In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal led “The Legal Case For Striking North Korea First,”
he argued there were no legal reasons against a pre-emptive strike by the U.S.:
The threat is imminent, and
the case against pre-emption rests on the misinterpretation of a standard that derives from prenuclear, pre-ballistic-missile times.
Given the gaps in U.S. intelligence about North Korea, we should not wait until the very last minute.
That would risk striking after the North has deliverable nuclear weapons, a much more dangerous situation.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...gEmail__032318
