Bolton, the archetypal chickenhawk, all squark!

September 8, 2025

This is a good summary of the truly insubstantially equipped Bolton. He hasn’t seen a war, actual or proposed, that he doesn’t like, from a distance of course. His later life bravado was preceded by a careful avoidance in his youth of any likelihood that he would actually serve anywhere near where the killing and the dying were taking place. His enthusiasm for war has been acquired along with an unerring capacity to avoid it in practice.

Like many of his ultra-conservative colleagues in Washington, he is more than happy to send other mothers’ children to fight and die in wars of empire with accompanying stirring speeches about promoting freedom and democracy while overturning democratic governments and replacing them with US puppets. The people of the US increasingly seem to see through this jingoism. That can only be a good thing for world peace!