Cruz to Trump: Name John Bolton as national security adviser

Gad,  Bolton  would win Fox News and Aryan Nations support but would anger other Republicans, other nations, our allies, and anyone who thinks the NSA director needs to be an expert in dealing with the sources of US Intelligence.

Bolton calls for Trump to retaliate against UN over Israel resolution

Some recent Bolton from Breitbart: 

On Israel/Palestine   “(Trump’s support for the one state solution) .. sends a signal all around the world that really the persecution of Israel that we’ve seen, unfortunately, in many European countries, in the U.N. for sure, is going to meet some fierce resistance from this president.”

“The two-state solution really is an outside imposition on Israel, based in the view of many. So he’s really saying, ‘I’m going to leave it to the parties.’ If they were to come up with a two-state solution – in other words, as you suggest, if the Palestinians got politically accountable, democratically elected leadership, foreswore terrorism, accepted the existence of Israel as a state, and were prepared to negotiate boundaries that would give Israel security – yeah, it’s possible. I think it’s unlikely,” he said.

North Korea

“ We’ve got to pressure China in ways that we haven’t under Obama, even under the prior Bush administration. I think this is a huge threat because it’s not only North Korea’s capacity to deliver a ballistic missile to the West Coast of the United States with a nuclear warhead, possibly in the next few years, according to our own military commanders in South Korea – but they’re cooperation with Iran on missiles and likely on nuclear programs, as well,” he warned.

Iran
“The first thing that has to be dealt with, with Iran, is this wretched nuclear deal that Obama cut with them. Before he was fired, Mike Flynn went out – I think the president’s instruction – and said he was putting Iran on notice that their ballistic missile testing was unacceptable. We’re going to have to come to a decision very soon, I wish we had done it already, to junk the Obama nuclear deal with Iran, which I don’t think the ayatollahs are complying with to begin with. I’m sure in the conversations between Trump and Netanyahu yesterday, how to deal with Iran was right at the top of the agenda, as it should be.”

Russia

“There’s no basis for… the drive by the New York Times and the Washington Post and others to convict half of the administration for cooperating with Russia in hacking the 2016 election, which I think is their objective.”

“There’s no evidence of any of that activity. … But you’ve got people absolutely going over the moon about how dangerous this is. What is the purpose of all this hysteria about the so-called cooperation with Russia, the hysteria about foreign policy, the hysteria about the cabinet nominees. The purpose of the hysteria is just to make people hysterical. It’s like shaking a tree to see what else will fall out of it.”

“ … you  have to look at this not as to whether today the Russians are going to attack us, or even tomorrow, but what the long-term geopolitical risks are from a Russia under an authoritarian state – rebuilding its military, enhancing its ballistic missiles, adding to its arsenal of nuclear weapons, crossing international boundaries in Europe with military force, annexing part of the Ukraine, threatening other Eastern and Central European countries, increasing its influence in the Middle East, and cooperating with China”

(is  Russia’s conducting naval maneuvers with China in the Eastern Mediterranean  a threat?)  “The essence of statesmanship is not waiting around for a threat to be existential. It’s preventing the threat from developing to that point early on. So I do think Russia’s a problem, and I think it needs to be dealt with very strongly.”

Ukraine

“the Ukraine sanctions and what to do about NATO and how to handle Russia in the Middle East because they are very extensively involved in a variety of theaters.”

“The notion that somehow the Russians have become benign is just wrong,” he declared. “They went through a period of democracy in the 1990s. They struggled with it. They’ve moved out of democracy, back into authoritarianism. This is an object lesson that history doesn’t always move in a forward-looking direction. We’ve got to deal with that. It’s not an ideological threat, but it is a classic nineteenth century power whose interests are widely different from those of the United States.”

(Obama and Hillary Clinton) ‘created opportunities for Russia to become even more of a threat.’ “They wanted to press the famous ‘reset button.’ They thought the problems with Russia had been caused by the Bush administration. The Russians took advantage of them repeatedly by getting us to dismantle our national missile defense capabilities on Poland and the Czech Republic, agreeing to the so-called New START arms control treaty – a really terrible agreement from the U.S. point of view – and on and on and on.”