John Bolton is bad news

https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/12/17091772/john-bolton-trump-national-security-adviser-war-iran-north-korea

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John Prados, a fellow at George Washington University’s National Security Archives, came to an even broader conclusion in a study of declassified Bush administration documents: Bolton bears a significant amount of blame for the politicized intelligence used to justify the decision to attack Iraq.

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Trump sees the world through a televisual lens; he seems to get more information from Fox News than from his daily intelligence briefings.

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In December 2016, the Washington Post reported that Bolton was eliminated from the running for secretary of state because Trump — I swear I’m not making this up — didn’t like his mustache.

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“If Bolton becomes the national security advisor, the United States has not hit rock bottom in our international relations,” says Eoyang. “We could go lower.”

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