Democrats Somehow Frame Mr. Boltons Exit As A Bad Thing by Caitlin Johnstone!
(2019-09-11 at 01:00:29 )

Democrats Somehow Frame Mr. Boltons Exit As A Bad Thing by Caitlin Johnstone

John Bolton is out as President Trumps National Security Advisor. Trump says he fired Bolton, Bolton says he offered to resign first. Both suggested that the departure was due to disagreements over foreign policy, which independent reports seem to confirm.

Personally, I do not care.

I do not care if Donald Trump fired John Bolton over an argument about which Sesame Street characters would win in a bare knuckle boxing match.

I do not care if John Bolton was carried bodily out of the White House by a strong gust of wind.

Trying to sort out the specifics of the drama in an administration packed with lying sociopaths is always an exercise in futility, and in this case it is even more pointless, because all that matters is that John Bolton is gone now.

That is an intrinsically good thing, by itself, regardless of what events led up to it.

President Trump says he is going to name a new National Security Advisor next week, and the good news is that it is literally impossible for whoever he ends up picking to be worse than John Bolton.

They might not be any better, but there is no way they can be more of a bloodthirsty psychopathic monster than their predecessor, because John Bolton is without exaggeration as bad as it gets in terms of sheer drive to start World War Three.

Right now John Boltons acting replacement is a neocon ghoul named Charles Kupperman, who analyst Jeffrey Kaye describes as "a Reaganite neanderthal Islamophobe, a creature of the defense industry, and a very close associate of John Bolton himself," and there are rumors that another vile neoconservative Bolton ally, former Central Intelligence Agency analyst Fred Fleitz, is among the top possible picks.

So we can not be confident that John Boltons replacement will be any better, but we can absolutely be confident that they will not be any worse.

It is an indisputably positive thing that the former PNAC director who is so psychopathic that he once threatened to murder the children of an OPCW official for inconveniencing his attempts to engineer the Iraq invasion is no longer in the most powerful foreign policy advisory position on planet Earth.

That is clearly and obviously an intrinsically beneficial thing for all of humanity.

So of course the leaders of the Democratic Party are objecting to it.

-John Boltons sudden departure is a symbol of the disarray that has unnerved our allies since day one of the Donald Trump Administration. Steady leadership & strategic foreign policy is key to ensuring the United States of Americas national security.-Nancy Pelosi September 10, 2019

"Todays action by President DonaldTrump is just the latest example of his government-by-chaos approach and his rudderless national security policy," tweeted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "When Ambassador Boltons extreme views are not enough for you, the United States is headed for even more chaotic times."

"I am legitimately shaken by the grave instability of United States American foreign policy today," tweeted Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. "I am no John Bolton fan, but the world is coming apart, and the revolving door of United States leadership is disappearing America from the world just at the moment where a stable American hand is most needed."

These "I am no John Bolton fan, but-" comments are plastered all over Centrist Twitter today, showing just how mainstream the mass media propaganda machine has made John Boltons demented bloodlust.

They are being enthusiastically waved on by neoconservative propagandists like Max Boot, who just published an article for The Washington Post titled "John Bolton was bad. His departure might be worse.", as well as imperialist comedy propagandists like The Daily Show.

Imagine taking John Boltons side in an argument for any reason-Daniel Larison September 10, 2019

I am not going to get excited and buy into the popular idea at this time that John Boltons termination marks a turning point for the already blood-soaked Donald Trump administration.

His absence is not going to bring the tens of thousands of Venezuelans who have been killed by Donald Trump administration sanctions back to life, nor is it likely to have any impact on this presidents consistently collapsing pledges to withdraw the United States military from Syria and Afghanistan.

But it can not possibly make things any worse, and it could, maybe, perhaps make things a bit better.

The political-media class which freaks out every time this president pays lip service to the possibility of scaling down foreign interventionism and embraces any time he advances it would of course oppose the abrupt termination of the most virulent warmonger in Washington, DC; the forever war has been so normalized that any move to rein it in is always portrayed by the narrative makers as abnormal and freakish.

Their response to John Boltons removal tells you everything you need to know about what these so-called "centrists" really are: violent extremists whose ideology threatens our entire world.

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