If there is one observation that former senior National Security Consultant John Bolton’s tell-all book makes clear regarding the Donald Trump administration’s bumbling approach to foreign policy, it is that the U.S. President has actually been preoccupied with unrelenting efforts to construct a domestic political narrative that might catapult him back into the Oval Office for a 2nd innings later on this year.
Nevertheless, history will likely evaluate Mr. Bolton and this book roughly for the role that both have actually played in weakening transparent democratic procedures at work: it is evident that the product for this book would have overlapped substantially with, if not corresponded, Mr. Bolton’s testimony to Congress throughout Mr. Trump’s impeachment inquiry– however the former NSA refused to affirm, choosing to maximise his personal gain from the publication of The Space Where It Occurred
Critiquing himself
Certainly, this 577- page, 15- chapter book does more than offer a troubling expert look into the staccato ‘policymaking’ process in the Trump White House: it is doubly valuable for the unwitting review it supplies of the author himself– a warmongering diplomacy hawk who regularly seems unable to separate his ultra-conservative ideological leanings from guidance that would best serve U.S. nationwide security priorities in the longer term.
Take for circumstances Mr. Bolton’s vehement opposition to the U.S. participating in talks with the routines in Iran and North Korea, respectively. Regarding Iran, Mr. Bolton appear