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The real villain of John Bolton's Trump book is John Bolton
Bolton makes clear President Trumps foreign policy is absolutely terrible but Boltons is much, much worse.After reading former National Security Adviser John Boltons tell-all book, it becomes exceedingly clear that President Donald Trumps foreign policy is terrible but Boltons is much, much worse.
Anyone who reads the 500-plus-page book will find their suspicions were correct: Trumps approach to the world truly is that shambolic and dangerous. But theres a twist: The author inadvertently offers readers hope that theres been a major improvement because the author himself is no longer in the White House.
By his own recounting, Bolton urged Trump to shy away from diplomacy and seek hardline positions against adversarial countries, namely in North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela. In one particularly disturbing passage, Bolton says it was irrational for Trump not to conduct an attack on Iran that could have led to tens to hundreds of civilian casualties, after it downed an unmanned American surveillance drone.
Had Trump taken Boltons advice more often, then, the US would be engaged in multiple conflicts across the globe. Its not clear to me that something equivalent to two more Iraq Wars would be better for the country, Joshua Shifrinson, a US foreign policy expert at Boston University, said.
Anyone who reads the 500-plus-page book will find their suspicions were correct: Trumps approach to the world truly is that shambolic and dangerous. But theres a twist: The author inadvertently offers readers hope that theres been a major improvement because the author himself is no longer in the White House.
By his own recounting, Bolton urged Trump to shy away from diplomacy and seek hardline positions against adversarial countries, namely in North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela. In one particularly disturbing passage, Bolton says it was irrational for Trump not to conduct an attack on Iran that could have led to tens to hundreds of civilian casualties, after it downed an unmanned American surveillance drone.
Had Trump taken Boltons advice more often, then, the US would be engaged in multiple conflicts across the globe. Its not clear to me that something equivalent to two more Iraq Wars would be better for the country, Joshua Shifrinson, a US foreign policy expert at Boston University, said.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/24/21300291/john-bolton-book-trump-review-room-foreign-policy
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The real villain of John Bolton's Trump book is John Bolton (Original Post)
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2020
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hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)1. He's every bit the authoritarian, the narcissist, the bully, that Trump is... Just less ignorant.
At least as toxic, but more directly so. Just Trump in a different "shell."
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)2. He's actually quite a cartoonish villain
The Yosemite Sam comparisons were on the mark...
louis-t
(23,292 posts)3. What really makes me mad is he thinks he knows
how the impeachment would have been more successful. With McConnell leading the Senate, there was no other possible outcome.
pazzyanne
(6,549 posts)4. I was livid when he made those comments about Dems not working with Mitch!
We watched that sh*tshow for almost 12 years, apparently he didn't or he is blind. Watched his interviews with various commenters, and he is a one trick pony. He has plenty of criticism, but does not have the integrity to stop what is happening. Another self-aggrandizing narcissist as far as I am concerned.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)5. One thing about Bolton: He's consistent.
He's always ready to throw other peoples' sons, daughters and spouses into bloody, costly wars that don't do fuck-all to improve things.
BootinUp
(47,143 posts)6. Poor Bolton, if only there were more insane people. Nt