Diopolis wrote:Ghost in the Shell wrote:So John Bolton apparently got fired? His claim is that it isn't official yet, but the media is going with "he's fired".
While I'm not the biggest fan of his I am an advocate for regime change in Iran and Venezuela among other countries and I was happy that there was such a strong hawkish voice in the White House. One positive from this news however is more proof that Trump is the funniest person alive right now:
"A few months ago Donald Trump hosted Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, in the Oval Office. Gesturing to his mustachioed national security adviser, the US president said: “John, is Ireland one of those countries you want to invade?”"
What's the RWDT consensus on interventionism, war, regime change and such? I know that the right-wing online tends to be more non-interventionist than academic right-wing circles but I'm curious nevertheless.
(Note: Bolton isn't a neocon so I don't want to hear any complaints about them).
The US should stay out of other countries, period. The existence of the state department is a waste of taxpayer money.
This extreme isolationism is also a bad idea, what happens other places does effect us, we are not an isolated island.
The answer is somewhere in between. We should not get involved in excessive interventions that are not necessary. But complete isolationism is a bad idea too.