This thread is a good example of what has happened to this nation.
Tucker, as usual, is being very dishonest, intentionally misleading, and a hyper-partisan about the whole thing.
John Bolton and his position on the Middle East is one rooted in Republican views of foreign policy for that area of the world going back decades, some of that thinking on which government is a target for change matching the ideological positions responses during the Bush 43 / Cheney time frame, and we have no evidence whatsoever that interventionism in terms of regime change in this area of the world ever was or became a liberal position.
It is unlikely that many "progressives" are "mourning" the firing of John Bolton.
They may greatly question Trump in who he hires or the reasoning for a firing, they may question the revolving door mentality of his administration, they may question how much Trump needs to be surrounded by those that kiss his ass, and they may question Trump's decisions that arguably give better position to other nations we are concerned about... but I doubt any real liberal thought highly of John Bolton.
We have another matter that is more important to discuss.
It could be argued very well that all of our confusing, hypocritical, and disastrous foreign policy going back at least 40 years has put us in a position where there are less options today to deal with conditions in this area of the world. To continue on the path put forth prior to Trump (and perhaps prior to Obama as well) means eventual war with Iran. The who likes who and why map for the Middle East is even more difficult today.
But it could also be argued very well, and Tucker has mentioned this before, that our policy has had consequences.
Our longest war (conflict, intervention, whatever the term is today) in US history is Afghanistan and that mess is still going on almost 18 years later, with plenty of loss of life, and no real solution in sight as the enemy listed for that conflict with ties in responsibility to 9-11 is still around.
Our war in Iraq did not turn out to well either. While we did remove a horrible dictator (who we once supported ironically because of his fight with Iran) we also ended up with terrorism where it was not before, a mess of ideological division where parts of the nation are *still* not under control, and a spill over into another mess. A long term multiple way civil war in Syria with interventionism from the West and Russia.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, etc... no where we have been involved, no matter how directly or indirectly, has resulted in peace.
John Bolton is a hallmark of a failed policy with plenty of blood in multiple nations never resulting in peace, as a liberal I am happy he is not in the ear of Trump begging for yet another mess in this area of the world.
The only place Tucker Carlson has been right is about what Iraq resulted in and what Iran would turn into, however his partisanship means only talking about it when someone he does not like is at the mic. That is worth calling out.
