National Security Adviser

Last year, I wrote a column wondering what sort of impact Trump’s then new “war hawk” National Security Adviser (NSA) might have on America’s national security policy. My conclusion was that he was mostly bad for multilateral diplomacy and Transatlantic Relations. Now that Bolton has left the White House, scholars are conjecturing on his legacy and his long-term impact on U.S. foreign policy.

The question ‘who is John Bolton’ came up in a conversation recently with several journalists after the American Dreamers premiere of The Last Son in Amsterdam. The war in Syria was amongst the topics discussed, with one journalist commenting that the new National Security Adviser (NSA) John Bolton must be advising Trump to pull out of Syria as quickly as possible.