The Classic Neocons Are Out, but They Might Still Get What They Want
Even without Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, the Trump administration still could be heading for regime change in the Middle East.
Even without Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, the Trump administration still could be heading for regime change in the Middle East.
The Democratic Party wants to outhawk Republicans, denouncing Trump for deescalating with North Korea and Iran.
The GOP nominee can forge a humbler path on foreign policy—or turn back to failed neoconservatism.
Bolton says the Bush administration's biggest error in Iraq was failing to invade Iran too. That's madness.
Objections to foreign election meddling lose credibility when you overthrow governments.
The Trump administration should discredit the former national security adviser's ideas, not subject him to a retaliatory investigation.
In a new book, former White House national security advisor John Bolton says Trump's trade deal negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping "commingled the personal and the national."
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They’re not likely to succeed, but the real goal is to seize any money he makes.
The attempted muzzling of the former national security advisor is dubious.
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John Bolton's account of the Trump-ordered freeze on military aid to Ukraine highlights a contradiction at the heart of the president's defense.
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The big question is whether Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will allow any witnesses at all.
If I were Trump, I would not want to find out.
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He got the boot before managing to start any new wars.
The Trump administration keeps deliberately raising tensions with Iran, risking conflict.
Trump administration officials discuss plans to deploy 120,000 troops to the Middle East amidst rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.
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This is not a battle crucial to American security.
National Security Adviser John Bolton says the U.S.'s withdrawal is conditioned on protection of the Kurds, total elimination of ISIS.
John Bolton makes a pitch for American confrontations with Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
"For all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us," Bolton reportedly plans to say.
How will Trump and new national security adviser John Bolton respond to a reported chemical attack in a war-ravaged country?
The new national security adviser embodies the reckless interventionism that Trump criticized during his campaign.
Trump's new National Security Adviser is a preemptive warrior, a nonproliferation obsessive, and someone who has described himself as a "hawkish libertarian."
Non-interventionists, consider yourselves repudiated.
John Bolton's belligerence belies the president-elect's critique of reckless foreign intervention.
Calling for the preemptive use nuclear weapons, and other potential catastrophes from America's mustachioed warmonger.
For the libertarian-leaning senator, just about anybody would be better than John Bolton or Rudy Giuliani.
Senator declares: "President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on changing our disastrous foreign policy. To appoint John Bolton would be a major first step toward breaking that promise."
How does this square with the candidate's stated foreign policies?
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