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Robert Costa
Bolton Settles the Issue
Offering to resign is not resigning.
The New York Times has the correct headline: Trump Fires John Bolton as National Security Adviser.
President Trump fired John R. Bolton, his third national security adviser, on Tuesday amid fundamental disagreements over how to handle major foreign policy challenges like Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.
His departure comes as Mr. Trump is pursuing diplomatic openings with two of the United States’ most intractable enemies, efforts that have troubled hard-liners in the administration, like Mr. Bolton, who view North Korea and Iran as profoundly untrustworthy.
The president has continued to court Kim Jong-un, the repressive leader of North Korea, despite Mr. Kim’s refusal to surrender his nuclear program and despite repeated short-range missile tests by the North that have rattled its neighbors. In recent days, Mr. Trump has expressed a willingness to meet with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran under the right circumstances, and even to extend short-term financing to Tehran, although the offer has so far been rebuffed.
Bolton’s Consistent Message “Bomb Iran”
He repeatedly called on Tump to “Bomb, Bomb, Iran”
Bolton Wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times: To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran
Dangerous Obsession With Iran
Why Now?
Bolton’s policy was known log ago. It never changed.
He never should have been hired in the first place.
Here’s the deal
- Trump needs deals to get re-elected
- Bolton doesn’t want deals
Good Riddance
Of all Trump’s appointments, Bolton was the worst.
The words “worst” and “good riddance” do not come close to expressing my feelings.
“Despise” is insufficient.
National Security Advisor John Bolton was an enormous security threat to the United States of America and the world in general.
For lack of anything else powerful enough to add, “Good Riddance”.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
CNN will pick him up in a flash. They always have room for another Trump basher.
Two words: Tucker Carlson
Christmas have come early this year. Hopefully.
Halleluja!
“First as far as who quit and who got fired. Trump has a poor history of telling the truth. Bolton may be a war monger but he’s been relatively honest. I believe him.”
I believe his story too
Those are the facts and Bolton admitted point 1
Very few people are ever fired by this or any other President. Almost all resign. If someone gets fired, its usually because they refused to resign or made an insincere offer to resign but didn’t go through with it.
If Bolton had actually tendered his resignation, that would have been that.
As Mish wrote, offering to resign but then continuing to argue is not the same as actually resigning
Impossible to know why Trump hired him … no way of knowing what kind of quid pro quo’s with hidden political forces there may have been. That said, on the surface it sure looks like Trump has severely hampered his administration by not being able to pick reliable staff who know how to operate the levers of power (? Jeff Sessions).
Trump.
No new wars
Fired Bolton
Talking with Taliban and trying to work a deal to withdraw from Afghanistan
Defeated ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Better terms with North Korea than the last 40 years of US presidents
Called the war in Iraq a big fat mistake
Wants dialogue with Russia and a return to the G8
Portrayed as warmonger by the fake legacy media.
And…
Two wars obama “I am pretty good at killing people” has a Nobel Peace Prize.
Surprised people liked this post.
No new wars- so far this is true, but all the old ones continue
Fired Bolton- yeah, hired him too
Talking with Taliban and trying to work a deal to withdraw from Afghanistan- Nothing has come of this and Trump threw a tantrum about the latest Taliban attack
Defeated ISIS in Iraq and Syria- Russia and Syria defeated ISIS, we funded them
Better terms with North Korea than the last 40 years of US presidents- Different talk, but nothing has changed
Called the war in Iraq a big fat mistake- yeah, and then continued it.
Wake me up when arguments about Trump’s greatness don’t rely on 4D chess analogies!
This is fantastic news, but Trump needs to send Pompeo and Abrams packing too. Neocons have no place in Trump’s administration or any other as they’ve already had their day and are utterly unwilling to change their odious views.
I always thought Bolton and Pompeo were pushed onto Trump (by Adelson?) and seeing Trump finally push back is wonderful. Good riddance to a guy who never should have been hired in the first place and surprised no one with his rhetoric.
MIC won’t be happy.
during His presidency upto now, Trump has done 2 things correct: never started a new war, and fired Bolton the warmonger!
Nominated two good SC candidates
Mr. President, I’m sure the world will be a much friendlier and generally more agreeable place for us now that John Bolton is out. Can we have a peace-in-our-time tweet, please?
Obviously, Trump shouldn’t have hired Bolton in the first place. But why did he?
Bolton was hired five days after the last western military strike on Syria (following a false flag CWs ‘attack’) in April, 2018. Trump has endured heavy criticism each time he has expressed a desire to get out of Syria. One of the few things the establishment praised Trump for was attacking Syria (twice).
I suspect Trump hired Bolton mainly to appease warmongering critics in the US mil/industrial complex (and maybe Netanyahu also). But whatever the reason, by bringing in the worst of the warmongers and letting everyone see what these people have in store for US, and the world if they remain influential, Trump has shown a light on the Dark – whether he intended to or not.
“…Trump has shown a light on the Dark – whether he intended to or not.”
Yes!
I am happy to overlook all the stupid tweets if it means more of the swamp gets drained.
“Trump has shown a light on the Dark ”
Sure because pulling out of the Iran deal is showing a light…
“Less war mongering in this administration than either Bush’s or Obama’s.”
Trump has started no new wars
That we can say
“Trump has started no new wars”
Give him time… Pompeo just declare that there are several terrorist groups we have the right to “bomb”. My guess if he thinks he needs a war to cinch 2020 he will start one
Keep your friends close, and keep your enemies closer.
Bush and Obama loved war; Trump does not. I think Trump hired Bolton for the purpose of wearing Bolton down in frustration. Get Bolton all excited about starting yet another war, and then yank the rug out from under him at the last minute.
Trump doesn’t do things the “normal” way, at least not the normal Washington DC way. The press continues to underestimate Trump because they insist on judging Trump according to Washington DC metrics…. Washington DC is the problem.
Trump is far far far from perfect, but anything he does to dismantle the mess that is the political class is a good thing for the rest of the country.
Bolton is part of the career bureaucrat class that has profited from both the blood and treasure that rightfully belongs to taxpayers. My only regret in this story is that Trump didn’t put Bolton more “in the spotlight” more often, let Bolton dig more of his grave himself. Sunlight is a great way to get rid of cockroaches. Allowing Bolton to leave with his reputation somewhat in tact means he might return in some future administration… it would have been better (longer lasting) if Bolton had left in disgrace.
So now a generation of military aged Americans will grow up with all their limbs still attached, and some foreign country will have to wreck itself without the USA “helping”. Both good problems
“The press continues to underestimate Trump because they insist on judging Trump according to Washington DC metrics”
Or they judging him for what he is: narcissistic and paranoid because otherwise how can you possible explain his behaviour after “Dorian goes to Alabama”? A normal person would have said: “I made a mistake, I use an old forecast”. A totally derange person would do what he did.
trump hired Bolton in the first place and had planes in the air to bomb Iran before he changed his mind. Trump gets some credit for firing that ghoul but not much since he hired him in the first place.
Must be that because he is not a pathological case. So do explain his take on Dorian not the mistake but the follow up. You Trump lovers make laugh.
@Carlos_ you need to see a psychiatrist and get help
Bolton’s views were consistent and never hidden, he wanted to attack Iran before he was appointed and yet Trump appointed him. Then Trump fired him because he wanted to attack Iran. Dueling nutjobs
Less war mongering in this administration than either Bush’s or Obama’s.
And Clinton and daddy-Bush
Clinton? I don’t think so.
Clinton started the whole “Spreading democracy” doctrine.
We’re talking about Bill right? I’d love to see a source because I think it was Bush jr., not Clinton, who wanted to spread democracy with his wars and regime changes.
NATO lost it’s purpose in the 90’s, so Clinton bombed Serbia to give it a new purpose. He did not explicitly say that it was to spread democracy, but that was the beginning of the new era.
Didn’t we also go into Somalia under Bill Clinton?
Trump actually DID something RIGHT today …. to get rid of that fckn warmonging moustache….Good ….G R E A T !
One less warmonger…