What Matters Most Is That Bolton Publishes the Book Before the Election
I’m no fan of his, but he is doing a service to the nation by speaking out.
Updated at 4:26 p.m. ET on June 18, 2020.
I am not a fan of John Bolton. I’ve written about his time as national security adviser. He is incapable of strategic thought, he failed to run a proper interagency process and excluded people he personally disagreed with on issues, he tried to box Donald Trump into launching wars and interventions that the president was skeptical of, and he is blinded by his own ideology about international law. In some policy areas, including Iran, he was the most dangerous person in the administration. I believe he made America weaker and damaged the national interest. He was wrong to refuse to testify in front of the House of
