John Bolton: Reckless and Incompetent?

In The American Conservative, Daniel Larison outlines the loathing other administration officials feel for John Bolton, whom he calls reckless and incompetent. There have been rumors of possible replacement for Bolton as bad news line after bad news line piles up in the National Security Advisor’s wake. Larison writes (abridged):

If Bolton(John) is “under attack” from within the administration, it is because he has behaved with the same recklessness and incompetence that characterize his preferred policies overseas.

He should be attacked, and with any luck he will be defeated and driven from office. Unfortunately, we have been seeing the opposite happen over the last few weeks: more Bolton allies are joining the administration in important positions and at least one major rival has exited.

Bolton’s influence in the administration is an important indication of what U.S. foreign policy will look like in the months and years to come, and the longer he remains National Security Advisor the worse it will be for U.S. interests.

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