John Bolton - Traitor to Common Decency by Tom Luongo!
(2020-06-29 at 20:53:40 )

John Bolton - Traitor to Common Decency by Tom Luongo!

There are few men in modern United States of American history more venal than Former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Calling Bolton a relic of the Cold War in his outlook on foreign policy is a kindness.

Mr. Bolton is a dangerous and pathetic creature whose entire life is an example of how incomplete men with a talent for violence can rise in a late-stage cesspit of political corruption.

He is simply someone who has never been in a fight in his life who lusts for the power to kill, main and destroy anyone who dares challenge him. A pathology he has had the dubious distinction of being able to act out in the real world on more than one occasion.

This will, hopefully, be the last article I write about his cretin because once his last fifteen minutes of fame are used up attacking President Donald Trump in slavish interview after interview supporting his book, John Bolton will be finished in Washington D.C.

This book is his gold watch for being a lifelong soldier in the service of the United States of American empire and the neoconservative-neoliberal dream of global conquest. $2 million, a handful of residuals and a final victory lap for a life spent in pursuit of the subjugation of those he considers sub-human.

President Donald Trumps recent tweet about John Bolton is a masterful bit of brevity being the soul of wit.

I gave John Bolton, who was incapable of being Senate confirmed because he was considered a wacko, and was not liked, a chance. I always like hearing differing points of view. He turned out to be grossly incompetent, and a liar. See judges opinion. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!!!-Donald J. Trump June 22, 2020

And while John Bolton spent the balance of his career in D.C. working nominally for Republicans, his lust for war served both parties equally well. That war lust was in service of the empire itself when John Bolton was fired, and he turned against President Donald Trump.

He was welcomed as a Hero of the Resistance by Democrats intent on impeaching the President after he was fired last year, one of the few good moments in Donald Trumps nearly four years at the helm of United States foreign policy. Given his involvement with Fiona Hill and Eric Chiaramella, the whistleblower whose testimony created the impeachment charges, John Bolton really could be thought of as the architect of that process.

So, it is no surprise that his book is welcomed as the gossip event of the summer by the media. But remember, this is a guy who refused to testify against Donald Trump for Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff and that is because he would have never stood up to cross-examination.

This is because, ultimately, John Bolton is a coward. And he is the worst kind of coward. He is the kind of man who deals underhandedly while hiding behind rhetoric in controlled environments to pursue his fever dreams of suppressing the Untermensch.

What we know now, thanks to John Boltons unwillingness to keep his trap shut, is that things were as we suspected while he was in the White House. Every event that occurred was an excuse for John Bolton to tell Donald Trump to go to war. And every time Donald Trump was led up to that trough to drink, he backed away causing Mr. Boltons mustache the worst case of sexual frustration.

Worse than that, John Bolton sabotaged any hope of detente with Russia, North Korea and improving the situation in the Middle East. While he was right to hate Jared Kushners Deal of the Century for Israel-Palestine, he was instrumental in getting Donald Trump to stay in Syria rather than turn over what is left of its suppression to the people who actually want it to continue - Israel and Saudi Arabia.

In the end John Bolton is really the best example I can come up with for the monolithic thinking that permeates D.C. Despite his best instincts, Mr. Trump took Mr. Bolton on because the potential talent pool is so thin.

Anyone with original ideas, such as Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, are more valuable in their current position rather than coming into an administration that is hamstrung by a permanent bureaucracy unwilling to change, or in open revolt.

There is no profit for them to make the jump even if they wanted to.

This point has been in effect since before Donald Trump took office when he would not stand behind his first National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who is still embroiled in the worst The Swamp can throw at a person.

Progressives, liberals and anti-imperalists I implore you to stop allying with this creature of The Swamp in his quest to do damage to a president you hate. Because by doing so you are strengthening the very people who are the architects of the empire you believe you are fighting against.

Because that is who John Bolton wrote this book for.

He did not write it for you.

John Bolton will ultimately be a foot note in the history books. A man whose only claim to fame was failing to allow a president to make some peace with North Korea and set the United States on a path to complete alienation with the rest of the world.

Because of the neoconservatives intense war lust, as embodied by Mr. Bolton, it pushed Donald Trump, already an arch-mercantilist, even farther along the path of using economic pressure to force change on the world stage.

But, as I have been saying for years now, that is a strategy just as ruinous in the long run for the United States as John Boltons cowardice urging use of a military - which he refused to serve in - to do his dirty work for him.

These are both expressions of an empire which refuses to accept that it is in decline. And it has invited the chaos now evident in cities all across the United States as our wealth has been squandered on endless wars for regime change overseas while building a regulatory police state at home.

That helped pushed the militarization of our local police, further putting them in conflict with a domestic population growing more desperate and reactionary on both sides of the political aisle.

John Boltons projection of all the United States ills onto countries with no real ability to harm us physically ultimately was not only his undoing with Donald Trump but the United States undoing as a leader of the post-WWII order.

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