Well Trump just appointed John Bolton a guy who is slobbering to have war with Iran. Will Bobbie volunteer again? Will Bigtexx and the chickenhawks talk it up -- or possibly even tie a yellow ribbon or put a bumper sticker supporting the troops? Will the moderate liberals support another war more or less? Fox and CNN could use a ratings boost. Trump can placate the Pentagon and the CIA. ..... But the strong likelihood that Donald Trump will now choose John Bolton as his next national security advisor creates a prospect of war with Iran that is very real. Bolton is no ordinary neoconservative hawk. He has been obsessed for many years with going to war against the Islamic Republic, calling repeatedly for bombing Iran in his regular appearances on Fox News, without the slightest indication that he understands the consequences of such a policy. His is not merely a rhetorical stance: Bolton actively conspired during his tenure as the Bush administration’s policymaker on Iran from 2002 through 2004 to establish the political conditions necessary for the administration to carry out military action. More than anyone else inside or outside the Trump administration, Bolton has already influenced Trump to tear up the Iran nuclear deal. Bolton parlayed his connection with the primary financier behind both Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump himself—the militantly Zionist casino magnate Sheldon Adelson—to get Trump’s ear last October, just as the president was preparing to announce his policy on the Iran nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He spoke with Trump by phone from Las Vegas after meeting with Adelson..... http://www.theamericanconservative....ent-is-scarier-than-you-think-mcmaster-trump/
