Remember When Trump Was Anti-Iraq War? Bolton Hire Just Tip of Iceberg in Policy U-Turn
- Has Trump sold out to the Illuminist MIC? Base on the appointment of Bolton, I would say: LIKELY.
– - Remember When Trump Was Anti-Iraq War? Bolton Hire Just Tip of Iceberg in Policy U-Turn
by https://www.rt.com/
Despite being elected on an anti-interventionist program, Donald Trump has now surrounded himself with foreign policy hawks and Iraq war apologists. The new National Security Adviser, John Bolton, is just one of the wild bunch.
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Back in his pre-election days Trump was a vocal critic of American military adventurism. Notably in 2013, he outright said on Twitter “All former Bush administration officials should have zero standing on Syria. Iraq was a waste of blood & treasure.”
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Fast forward to 2018, and Trump is picking the likes of John Bolton – an Iraq war apologist and an advocate for starting more wars of the kind – to his team of advisers. While Bolton is known as extremely hawkish even by neocon standards, he is not the sole example in the cabinet. Both Trump’s security and foreign policy teams are now full of people who backed the Iraq disaster and are now in favor of military action against Iran and North Korea.
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