John Bolton is Back! Be Alarmed.
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John Bolton speaks at the Feb. 22 Conservative Political Action Conference gathering at the National Harbor, MD. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump named John R. Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney administration, as his third national security adviser, replacing Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and constructing a hawkish, confrontational national security team just as this country faces tough decisions on North Korea and Iran. (Last week the president replaced Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a former Army officer and Tea Party congressman who has favored regime change in Pyongyang and talked about ripping up the Iran nuclear deal.)
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