This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, March 24, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

John Bolton will now replace HR McMaster as the President's National Security

advisor Bolton is an unabashed Hawk who displays extreme skepticism

toward even the most rudimentary diplomacy. Cato's John Glazer and Sire Khan comment on the change.

Bolton is easily the most extreme hawk in American politics.

He was a very vociferous supporter of the Iraq war. That's where he kind of made a name for himself in the Bush administration.

He a few months prior to the announcement that we had successfully

negotiated the Iran nuclear deal. March 2015 he published an op-ed in New York Times saying the only way to deal with an

Iranian nuclear program is to bomb Iran.

So preemptive or preventive strikes against Iran.

Last month, he wrote another op-ed in the Wall Street Journal

that said we should preventively strike North Korea,

despite the fact that all of the analysis that's done on an outbreak of war in the Korean

Peninsula estimates extremely high casualty rates and almost uncontrollable escalation,

it'd be a real catastrophe.

He was in favor of greater military intervention in Syria.

There's almost no spot on the map that you can point to that potentially would have included the United States involved in a war that he hasn't supported.

He was actually even too extreme for the Bush administration.

Dick Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney kind of finagle him a position as under Secretary of State for

Arms Control.

And then when Secretary of State Powell left, they tried to, Cheney tried to get him to be Secretary of State.

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