Diplomatic and military analysts have been surprised at how often national security adviser John Bolton’s stated positions diverge from Donald Trump’s.With a crisis in Venezuela, growing tensions with Iran, a deteriorating relationship with North Korea and trade strains with China, Donald J. Trump is presiding over a White House that is at war with itself over America’s increasingly aggressive international posture.
All of them, that is, except Mr. Bolton, who seems often to look, in the disparaging 1821 phrase employed by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, “abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” This is one situation where the President is the agent of caution. Mr. Trump affirmed that last week, saying, ‘’I actually temper John.’’
The national security adviser’s role in the deployment was noted, not with approval, by the website of the American Conservative magazine, founded by, among others, Patrick J. Buchanan, a one-time top aide to Richard M. Nixon who has run twice for the GOP presidential nomination and has been an ardent defender of Mr. Trump:
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