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<\/div>\nThere have been multiple reports that President Donald Trump<\/strong> is unhappy with his National Security Adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster<\/strong>. As rumors increased about a McMaster departure so, too, did speculation that George W. Bush\u2019s never-confirmed ambassador to the United Nations, the arch-neoconservative John Bolton<\/strong>, might be named as McMaster\u2019s replacement. Bolton has reportedly been seen at the White House on several occasions briefing Trump and other high-level officials.<\/em><\/p>\n John Bolton as National Security Adviser, with Nikki Haley<\/strong> in Bolton\u2019s old job at the U.N. and fundamentalist Christian dominionist Mike Pompeo<\/strong> moving from CIA director to replace Rex Tillerson<\/strong>as Secretary of State, means that the neocons \u2014 never happy with the prospects of a Trump administration \u2013 will, once again, be in the driver\u2019s seat of American foreign policy after a nine-year hiatus. Bolton\u2019s tenure at the U.N. was punctuated by his own undiplomatic outbursts, as well as those of his spokesman, Richard Grenell,<\/strong> Trump\u2019s nominee to be US ambassador to Germany. Bolton strenuously pushed the neocon foreign policy line, as spelled out in the charter for the movement founded in 1997, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).<\/p>\n Bolton is a staunch interventionist, which would appear at odds with the non-entanglement foreign policy espoused by Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. However, as Trump entered his second year in office, it was apparent that one branch of the neocons, the most hawkish element and one linked to the Christian fundamentalist wing of the Republican Party, had captured control of the foreign policy levers of the Trump White House. Bolton has called for the US to declare war on Iran and North Korea and he has advocated for a US troop deployment to Syria to combat the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.<\/strong><\/p>\n Bolton also favors scrapping the Iran P5+1 nuclear agreement, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Bolton\u2019s international views are no different than those of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, a camaraderie Bolton shares with Trump.<\/p>\n The mere fact that Bolton has been a recent frequent guest at the Trump White House and that Trump reportedly values Bolton\u2019s advice, is a threat to global peace.<\/p>\n On June 29, 2017, long after Trump sought Bolton\u2019s advice, the former ersatz US ambassador to the UN wrote the following neocon screed for Fox News:<\/p>\n \u201cThere are signs the Assad government may be planning another chemical attack. American pilots have struck forces threatening our allies and shot down a Syrian plane and Iranian-made drones. The probability of direct military confrontation between the US and Russia has risen . . . Instead of reflexively repeating President Obama\u2019s errors, the Trump administration should undertake an \u2018agonizing reappraisal,\u2019 in the style of John Foster Dulles, to avoid squandering the victory on the ground . . . In Syria, Kurdish forces fighting ISIS [Islamic State] are linked to the Marxist PKK in Turkey. They pose a real threat to Turkey\u2019s territorial integrity.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Bolton wants the United States to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and supports Trump\u2019s backing of the Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates embargo against Qatar as punishment for its ties to both the Brotherhood and Iran. Bolton also wants added to the US terrorist list Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Bolton is on record as favoring the creation of a new \u201csecular\u201d Sunni state in Iraq that would be bankrolled by Saudi Arabia. The new Sunni state, in Bolton\u2019s view, would stymie the creation of a Shi\u2019a arc of control extending from Iran through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon.<\/p>\n On the issue of Palestine, Bolton has demanded the abolishment of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which administers aid programs for Palestinian refugees. In May 2017, before accepting the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University in Jerusalem, Bolton told The Jerusalem Post that the \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d of Israel and an independent Palestinian state should be abandoned, Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority disbanded, Gaza given to Egypt, and the West Bank divided between Israel and Jordan. Bolton cynically said he believes in a \u201cthree-state solution\u201d with Israel, Egypt, and Jordan taking control of current Palestinian territory. While representing the Bush administration at the U.N., Bolton and his chief adviser Grenell were known for coordinating all of America\u2019s votes on Middle Eastern matters with the Israeli delegation.<\/p>\n Bolton\u2019s world view is to turn the clock back to the 1950s and the \u201ccontainment\u201d policy advanced by Secretary of State Dulles. In the 1950s, \u201ccontainment\u201d meant containing the Soviet Union. For Bolton, containment now applies to boxing in Iran, joining Turkey in defeating the Syrian Kurds because Bolton believes they are linked to a \u201cMarxist\u201d Kurdish party in Turkey, and seeking the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria. That Bolton has gotten the ear of Trump, whose world view is a mile wide and a half-inch deep, should trouble the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond.<\/p>\n Bolton\u2019s neocon rhetoric on NATO is no less alarming. He wants membership in NATO fast-tracked for Ukraine and Georgia. Bolton as Trump\u2019s national security adviser would help usher into the Trump White House Bolton\u2019s fellow neocons ensconced at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, where Bolton enjoys a senior fellowship. Bolton favored US military action to prevent to retrocession of Crimea to the Russian Federation. Bolton\u2019s appointment as Trump\u2019s national security adviser would avoid US Senate confirmation, which, for Trump, would mean no contentious Senate floor battle with such anti-Bolton Republicans as Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.<\/p>\n In yet another hearkening back to the days of Dulles, Bolton has promoted an updated version of the discredited \u201cdomino theory\u201d for the Western Hemisphere. President Ronald Reagan<\/strong> tried to convince the American public that if the Sandinista government was permitted to take root in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and soon, Mexico, would fall to the Communists. Reagan warned that the Communists could then take over the US-Mexican border town of Harlingen, Texas because it was two-day\u2019s driving time from Nicaragua. Bolton served in the Reagan State Department alongside such neocons as Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs and the person behind Reagan\u2019s \u201cCommunists in Harlingen\u201d nonsense. It was also a so-called \u201cdomino theory\u201d that was promoted by Bolton\u2019s hero, Dulles, and his Cold War successors as Secretary of State to defend US military intervention in Southeast Asia to prevent Communism from spreading from China and North Vietnam to Thailand, Malaysia, and, eventually, even Sydney, Australia and Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n Bolton views the instability in Venezuela as a prelude for such anarchy spreading to Colombia and throughout South and Central America. Bolton believes that Cuba and Nicaragua are working hand-in-glove with Venezuela to destabilize Latin America and the Caribbean. Bolton opposed the normalization of US relations with Cuba and he supports Trump\u2019s downgrading of those ties. Of course, Bolton fails to mention that it was under the Bush administration that repeated US attempts to destabilize Venezuela began and they never ceased. Bolton would rather see Venezuela fall under the control of a right-wing autocrat, such as those who gained power in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile from progressive presidents.<\/p>\n Bolton actually believes Iran is exploiting the political turmoil in Venezuela to gain access to the country\u2019s uranium deposits. He also is convinced that Hezbollah has established a drug-running network in Latin America. Bolton has called on Trump to reassert the arcane Monroe Doctrine \u2013 proclaiming the Western Hemisphere as America\u2019s domain \u2013 because of \u201cRussian meddling\u201d in Latin America. Bolton\u2019s predilection for such conspiracy theories, while welcomed and highly sought in Republican Party cuckoo land, are not the product of sober intelligence analysis of world events. John Bolton, a dangerous madman, certainly has no place in any White House, particularly one that is already led by someone who is mentally unhinged.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n