John Bolton’s 10 Rules For Statecraft

President Trump has chosen Ambassador John Bolton to succeed General H.R. McMaster as National Security Advisor. Bolton has previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Under Secretary of State during the administration of George W. Bush, Assistant Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush, and Assistant Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, in which capacity he helped shepherd the judicial nomination process for Antonin Scalia.

The National Security Advisor, unlike many other federal appointments, does not require Senate confirmation, which may ease the personnel change. Bolton’s bluntness and rock-ribbed conservatism have earned him the ire of America’s international enemies and Democrats. Iran’s Foreign Ministry has called Bolton “rude” and “undiplomatic”; North Korea’s murderous Kim regime described him as “human scum and bloodsucker”; and Democrats, for their part, refused to confirm him as U.N. ambassador, leading President George W. Bush to appoint him while the Senate was in recess.