John Bolton’s Ouster Makes the World Safer (Duh?!!)

[signalmankenneth]

But only a little. Trump’s clownish foreign policy shouldn’t be used to discredit diplomacy.

John Bolton doesn’t seem like a man who quotes T.S. Eliot in moments of trial, but he might take comfort in these words from Four Quartets: “In my beginning is my end.” Bolton’s truncated tenure as national security adviser, a 17-month sprint from April of 2018 to this week, started with Donald Trump delighting in Bolton’s vigorous defense of the president on Fox News and ended, reportedly, with the POTUS fuming over Bolton’s refusal to be a talking-head surrogate.

According to The Washington Post, “Bolton recently said he did not want to appear on television to defend some of the administration’s positions, particularly on Afghanistan and Russia.”

Television, then, was both the making and unmaking of John Bolton. Like so much else in the Trump era, Bolton’s career as national security adviser was a media creation. Fittingly, it ended in a flurry of competing tweets, with Trump

Bolton was fired while Bolton countered he’d tried to quit first.

https://www.thenation.com/article/tr...oreign-policy/

[Jack]

Yes.