Unsurprising. He's a gamer in that he looks for ways to create fake red lines that ensure an adversary will cross, and then uses that as casus belli.<p>He's as pro war as you get in D.C. And he's not a negotiator. He knows the consequences of the Iraq war, was one of its architects, and does not care at all about the dead. He still argues that invasion was a good thing.<p><i>With regard to North Korea, he believes diplomacy is useless and the only “solution” is reunification of the Korean Peninsula — as a free and democratic country. If that is a short-term goal rather than a long-term aspiration, a massive war almost certainly would be necessary. On Iran, he has declared the deal unfixable and advocated for military strikes on Iran.</i>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/23/reaction-to-bolton-stunned-worried-horrified/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/2...</a><p>He recently penned a piece in the WSJ, February of this year, advocating striking North Korea first.