National Security Adviser John Bolton Resigns
The wrong side is winning in the intellectual battles raging in @realDonaldTrump administration.
Whoever advised Trump to meet with the jihad-terror group Taliban should have been fired – not Bolton. https://t.co/35sPkhmaxl— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) September 10, 2019
Washington Post on the 8th:
Competing versions of what led to the cancellation of the meeting and, at least temporarily, any further U.S.-Taliban negotiations, exposed internal administration tensions that have flared as a deal seemed near in recent weeks.
Those tensions have pitted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, whose chief negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, said a week ago that agreement “in principle” had been reached after 10 months of talks with the militants, and Trump national security adviser John Bolton, who opposed the talks.
Khalilzad is an old Bush nation building lackey. He shouldn’t be in this administration.
“I hope not,” Pompeo said in response to questions about whether the initial drawdown of at least 5,000 troops — more than a third of the total currently in Afghanistan — planned for early next year would be delayed, along with a subsequent full withdrawal tentatively planned to take place by the end of 2020. In exchange, the Taliban was to pledge to cut ties with al-Qaeda and support counterterrorism efforts.
But “any reduction in our forces will be based on actual conditions” on the ground, Pompeo said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” one of five Sunday television interviews he gave after Trump’s surprise announcement, made late Saturday on Twitter, about the planned Sunday meeting at Camp David.
Clearly the Taliban at Camp David was a bridge too far.
Trump was the main person pushing for the Camp David meeting, according to a senior administration official who, like others who discussed the sensitive issue, spoke only on the condition of anonymity. Comparing the initiative to Trump’s personal meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and his stated desire to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, this official said Trump thinks his personal style can persuade anyone, and that he has seen the possibility of a substantial Afghan withdrawal as a major plus for his reelection campaign.
While many in the administration have questioned the Taliban talks, Pompeo and Bolton have been at loggerheads over this issue and others, with Bolton, a well-known hawk, charging that Pompeo was trying to “box him out” of decision-making on Afghanistan.
Now this:
Trump ousts National Security Adviser John Bolton, says they ‘disagreed strongly’ on policy Bolton joined acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan at the Pentagon to strategize about next steps for Venezuela; Gillian Turner reports.
President Trump announced Tuesday that he has fired National Security Adviser John Bolton, saying he “disagreed strongly” with his suggestions on a range of issues.
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House,” Trump tweeted Tuesday
“I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning,” he continued. “I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.”
The two have had disagreements over a range of issues, perhaps most significantly on the plans for a troop drawdown in Afghanistan.
The president appointed Bolton to his post in March 2018, after removing H.R. McMaster.
Bolton became Trump’s third national security adviser, joining the administration in April 2018. McMaster had been appointed earlier in the administration to replace Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
But Bolton fired back Tuesday, tweeting moments after the president that he offered his resignation on Monday evening, and said it was not immediately accepted by Trump.
“I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow,’ Bolton tweeted.
Bolton, who previously served as a Fox News contributor, worked in the administrations of former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and served as a Bush lawyer during the 2000 Florida recount. Bolton also served as a U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as an undersecretary of state for arms control and international security from 2001 to 2005.
One source told Fox News Tuesday that many in the White House learned of Bolton’s firing from the president’s tweet Tuesday.
Source: https://gellerreport.com/2019/09/bolton-resigns.html/
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