This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, September 10th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

John Bolton is out as National Security Advisor.

His tenure at the White House seemed at odds

with many of the foreign policy impulses

of the Trump administration, particularly

against the President's impulse to extricate the US from endless costly warmaking.

Cato's Chris Prouble and Eric Gomez comment.

The president wrote on Twitter, I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House.

I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the administration,

and therefore asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning.

I thank John very much for his service.

So disagreements, it seems that the at least the natural impulse of this president is to not be involved globally internationally.

He himself has shown a willingness to be belligerent to the leaders of other countries around the world.

But what did he likely mean when he say that there were these disagreements between his national security advisor and the rest of the administration.

Well, I think that the most important disagreement, Caleb, is between Bolton and Trump, and more accurately accurately Trump's foreign policy instincts.

So the course of his campaign and even going back well before his campaign for the

presidency, Donald Trump expressed skepticism of

foreign intervention. He did not initially oppose the war in Iraq, but he

eventually came around to that point of view even

famously railing against the Iraq war of course initiated by a Republican

president and doing so in a Republican primary in South Carolina and winning the primary and then going on to win the nomination.

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