John Bolton is making millions with his cleverly titled tell-all takedown of President Trump, “The Room Where It Happened.” It turns out Bolton offers little insight into Trump’s mendacity we didn’t already know. We learn his leaving Trump’s service after 17 months was mutual; he got tired of failing to get Trump to attack Iran, and Trump got tired of Bolton’s endless war mongering. Last June, Bolton was ecstatic Trump was on the verge of bombing Iran after they shot down a U.S. drone. His glee turned to gloom when Trump backed down at the eleventh hour. Several months earlier, Bolton helped sabotage Trump’s ballyhooed North Korea peace initiative.
That’s how John ‘Bonkers’ Bolton got his nickname, going off the rails to upend peace agreements and negotiations. In 1998, he urged President Billl Clinton to oust Iraq President Saddam Hussein. In 2001, Bolton led the effort to encourage President George W. Bush to withdraw from the 1971 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. A year later he urged the president to withdraw from the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, paving the way for their building their first nuclear weapons.
John Bolton is America’s version of Allstate’s pitch man “Mayhem.” Unlike the funny Mayhem, Bolton’s Mr. Mayhem threatens the world’s fragile peace. He should have titled his memoir, “The Room Where I Couldn’t Launch Another War.”
— Walt Zlotow, Glen Ellyn
Note from KBJ: Stop projecting your mendacity onto President Trump, Walt. Can you not criticize John Bolton without bringing President Trump into it?
