{"id":28860,"date":"2018-03-25T20:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28860"},"modified":"2018-03-25T20:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:35:33","slug":"get-ready-for-mattis-vs-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28860","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for Mattis vs. Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump’s national security team just cannot get its legs under it. It cannot function as a cohesive team that imparts advice to a president who is willing to (a) listen to it and (b) follow<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

With that we now have a new national security adviser, uber-super hawk John Bolton who quite likely will clash openly with Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis.<\/p>\n

I’m going to pull for Mad Dog to win this fight, although Bolton now is the man of the hour, the guy who’s got the president’s ear.<\/p>\n

Heaven help us if Bolton’s world view carries the day in the West Wing of the White House.<\/p>\n

Bolton is known around the world as one with an itchy trigger finger. He favors pre-emptive military action against North Korea. Indeed, he has favored “putting boots on the ground” in places like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan … you name it, Bolton wants to flex U.S. military muscle.<\/p>\n

He despises the nuclear arms deal worked out by the Obama administration that seeks to de-nuclearize Iran.<\/p>\n

There’s Bolton’s profile in brief.<\/p>\n

How about Mattis? He favors<\/em> the Iran nuclear deal. He believes it is working and is worth retaining. And North Korea? Well, the retired Marine Corps general, a decorated combat veteran to boot, believes diplomacy<\/em> should remain as Option No. 1 in our efforts to talk the reclusive Marxist regime out of striking at South Korea, or Japan — or the United States of America!<\/em><\/p>\n

Mattis’s world view is forged by a career that has seen him serve up close in harm’s way. Bolton’s world view comes from a different perspective. He doesn’t have the kind of front-line military experience that Mattis does; Bolton served six years in the Maryland Army National Guard.<\/p>\n

I want to bring this to your attention only to suggest that there might be yet another ideological storm brewing within the Trump White House.<\/p>\n

As I have noted before, “Mad Dog” Mattis is one of the few grownups who have signed on to serve this president.<\/p>\n

I do not believe John Bolton falls into that category of public servant.<\/p>\n\n

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