Congress Should Help Rein In Trump’s New Pro-war National Security Advisor

Contrarian arguments about John Bolton – that he is smart and that his hawkishness might browbeat U.S. rivals into peace deals – look past a long record that suggests an appetite for forcible regime change, a capacity for shading the truth, and a…

• Stephen Pomper
• ICG

President Trump’s announcement that John Bolton would become his third national security advisor hit foreign policy circles like a minor earthquake last…

Bolton had long been rumoured to be waiting in the wings to take over from H.R. McMaster, who clashed both with the president and with powerful principals like Secretary of Defense James Mattis, but the…

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