The president likes former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
As a result, Thursday's decision by President Trump to replace his national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, with Ambassador Bolton - coming so soon after the decision to move another outspoken fighter, CIA Director Mike Pompeo , to head up the Department of State - will solidify the international and national-security gains of the last 14 months.
Especially when it came to our policy in Afghanistan, a topic on which the current national security adviser held no less than six principals meetings, each time trying to convince the commander in chief that a large-footprint presence was required in that benighted nation - until, that is, President Trump pointed out to Gen. McMaster that he was not elected to continue the broken nation-building policies of the post-9/11 years.
Quoting legendary Secretary of State Dean Acheson's response to the question of why he and President Truman had such a good relationship, Acheson replied that the answer was easy: "Neither the president or I ever forgot who is president."
In sum, John Bolton will be an outspoken adviser to the president, one who sees America's interests as paramount, but one who understands that it was Donald Trump who was chosen to be president and, to quote his Fox interview: "He's a different kind of president but that's what the people voted for."
In the past year thanks to the results-oriented drive of President Trump, MAGA has been filled with tangible content in a range of achievement, spanning the stupendous economic turnaround already achieved to the crushing of the "Caliphate" of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Former deputy assistant and strategist to President Trump.
As a result, Thursday's decision by President Trump to replace his national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, with Ambassador Bolton - coming so soon after the decision to move another outspoken fighter, CIA Director Mike Pompeo , to head up the Department of State - will solidify the international and national-security gains of the last 14 months.
Especially when it came to our policy in Afghanistan, a topic on which the current national security adviser held no less than six principals meetings, each time trying to convince the commander in chief that a large-footprint presence was required in that benighted nation - until, that is, President Trump pointed out to Gen. McMaster that he was not elected to continue the broken nation-building policies of the post-9/11 years.
Quoting legendary Secretary of State Dean Acheson's response to the question of why he and President Truman had such a good relationship, Acheson replied that the answer was easy: "Neither the president or I ever forgot who is president."
In sum, John Bolton will be an outspoken adviser to the president, one who sees America's interests as paramount, but one who understands that it was Donald Trump who was chosen to be president and, to quote his Fox interview: "He's a different kind of president but that's what the people voted for."
In the past year thanks to the results-oriented drive of President Trump, MAGA has been filled with tangible content in a range of achievement, spanning the stupendous economic turnaround already achieved to the crushing of the "Caliphate" of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Former deputy assistant and strategist to President Trump.
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