John Bolton, former national security adviser to Trump during the president’s first term and former ambassador to the UN, says Trump must make the case as to why this war is in the interests of the American people.
“I think the case is plain and can be made very effectively, but that has not happened yet, and if this communication problem is not corrected, Trump will have serious political problems to face,” said Bolton, a longtime Iran hawk who supports the US-Israeli strikes.
Bolton said Israel and the US share a goal of seeing regime change in Iran with Washington leading the way in its combat capacity and intelligence support while Israel provides the strategic thinking behind the operation.
“The logic behind this is that to eliminate Iran’s nuclear programme, to eliminate Iran’s support for terrorism, you have to eliminate the system in power,” Bolton said.
“If you don’t do that, if you simply wound it and diminish its capacity, it will grow back, and in some period of time, we will be right back where we were before this attack started.”
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