September 12, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
John Bolton is Gone…Good!
But Now What? Tucker Carlson Discusses
Friends,
The
special elections in North Carolina’s Congressional Districts 9 and 3 occupied
my attention yesterday, but before it recedes into the memory hole, I wanted to
offer a bit of commentary on the firing/resignation of John Bolton as President
Trump’s National Security Adviser, September 10.
Those who
have read MY CORNER over the past several years will know already that I
consider Bolton to be one of the most nefarious and reckless “foreign policy
experts” now roaming about Inside-the-DC-Beltway.” His history of zealous
malfeasance and “let’s start a war—somewhere, anywhere!” view of American
foreign policy goes back at least to the first Bush administration.
His view
of American interests and foreign policy gave credence to the charge that our
country was, indeed, “imperialist,” and that we wished to impose, by force if
necessary, our (problematic) idea of democracy on every remote oasis and every
distant jungle in the world, whether the inhabitants of those places desired it
or not. And that, of course, would means thousands of body bags coming back by
military jets and landing at various air fields, where grieving families would
ask simply: “Why was it necessary for MY husband—MY father—MY brother—to die in
some desert in Arabia or jungle in Africa when our country has no real interest there?”
Yes,
arguably back in the 1980s it might have made sense that we were opposing the
advance of world Communism. And hunting down the culprits of the World Trade
Center is often given as a reason for us being in Afghanistan. (Yet, as we are
beginning to find out, it was largely members of the Saudi Arabian political establishment
who were far more deeply involved. Indeed, the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis. Because
Saudi Arabia is our “ally,” nothing, no action has ever been taken to fully
expose or investigate those connections, although there is apparently a “freedom
of information” court case now pending.)
But why
did American boys and men have to risk their lives in: Bosnia, Sudan, Iraq,
Syria, maybe in the future in Iran, and so on? Islamic terror and the spread of
an Islamic ideology? The very governments in Iraq (Saddam) and Syria (Assad)
that we sought to overthrow (and in Iraq did overthrow) were stoutly
anti-Islamist. And our intervention only aided the triumph of Islamist
extremists. Whereas Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad were successful in
suppressing Al Qaeda, our involvement only made matters far worse.
And in
the former Yugoslavia, it was our intervention that permitted a protected
Islamist state, Kosovo, to be set up in the heart of Eastern Europe.
All of
which is to say that these operations…all zealously supported and pushed by the
bloodthirsty John Bolton and the Neoconservative foreign policy establishment…have
generally had a very negative result, and, in effect, been disastrous to actual
American interests in the world.
In 2016
Donald Trump ran on a platform of America First, of safeguarding American interests, and the promise that
other peoples’ wars and civil conflicts were not our business, that we could
not be the world’s policeman.
The
menace of world Communism has long passed; Islamic terror and Islamism are, of
course, threats, but our actions in Iraq and Syria have been gravely
counter-productive.
Now
Bolton is gone, and let us hope for good, and that some of the globalist
staffers (and Obama-era advisers he also promoted) will also depart as well.
The one
question I continue to have is just why President Trump brought him in to begin
with. Certainly, he knew of Bolton’s views. True, the president likes the
give-and-take of various opinions on a topic; but employing Bolton was in too
many ways a bridge too far, and he was from the beginning a major impediment
and hindrance in advancing an America First agenda.
Let us
hope that his departure will not be the last, for there are other grasping
minions around the president whose advice and counsel consistently subvert the
promises made back in 2016.
*****
Once
again, it was Tucker Carlson on his primetime program, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,”
Monday night, September 10, who summed up this matter succinctly and correctly,
as no other commentator could. So, I pass along his opening, six-minute
monologue via You Tube, and I ask that you watch it:
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