{"id":355001,"date":"2018-04-03T05:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T04:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-scared-should-we-be-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T05:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T04:37:59","slug":"how-scared-should-we-be-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-scared-should-we-be-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"How Scared Should We Be? \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Exclusive: Donald Trump\u2019s appointment of war hawk John Bolton is a cause for concern, Daniel Lazare writes, but what is perhaps an even bigger concern is that both major U.S. political parties are dominated by war hawks.<\/p>\n<p>By Daniel Lazare<\/p>\n<p>John Bolton is a hawk\u2019s hawk, a militarist who never saw a U.S. war of aggression he didn\u2019t like. The best thing one can say about his appointment as national security adviser is that Trump will probably ignore him the way he does all his other advisers and fire him six months down the road.\u00a0If so, the sky won\u2019t fall right away.\u00a0But make no mistake \u2013 it will soon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26473\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/john-bolton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/john-bolton-300x200.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26473\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26473\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/john-bolton-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Photo: Gage Skidmore<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rarely has war fever in Washington been deeper and more broad-based.\u00a0 Everybody\u2019s jumping on board \u2013 liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, human-rights advocates and neoconservatives.\u00a0With the 2018 midterms fast approaching, it seems that the only choice voters will have is between a military conflict from column A and one from column B.\u00a0 Which will it be \u2013 the clash with Putin that liberals are talking themselves into?\u00a0Or the showdown with Iran that Bolton has <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/03\/23\/heres-john-bolton-promising-regime-change-iran-end-2018\/\">long advocated<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a choice between cyanide and arsenic.\u00a0One moment, Trump is threatening \u201cLittle Rocket Man\u201d Kim Jong Un with \u201cfire and fury\u201d while, in the next, the <em>New York Times<\/em> is demanding that he take off the gloves with regard to the Kremlin.\u00a0The title of a <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/15\/opinion\/trump-russia-attack-spy.html\">editorial<\/a> on Friday, March 15, said it all: \u201cFinally, Trump Has Something Bad to Say About Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It blasted the Orange-Haired One for being slow to impose sanctions in retaliation \u201cfor the Kremlin\u2019s interference in the 2016 election\u201d \u2013 still unproven, by the way \u2013 and of holding off \u201cfor reasons that have never been made completely clear.\u201d This last point was rich considering how often the <em>Times <\/em>denounces Trump as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/22\/opinion\/donald-trump-the-siberian-candidate.html\">Siberian candidate<\/a>\u201d that\u00a0Russia installed in the White House to do its bidding. The editorial\u00a0slammed Putin as \u201can authoritarian leader\u201d who \u201chas paid little or no price for his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/03\/30\/the-bolton-appointment-how-scared-should-we-be\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Donald Trump\u2019s appointment of war hawk John Bolton is a cause for concern, Daniel Lazare writes, but what is perhaps an even bigger concern is that both major U.S. political parties are dominated by war hawks. By Daniel Lazare John Bolton is a hawk\u2019s hawk, a militarist who never saw a U.S. war of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}