Bolton pick underscores Trump's foreign policy confusion

“It is a very odd choice for someone who says he was against going to war in Iraq,” said Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a center of Republican foreign policy scholarship who served as a senior adviser to the U.S. government in Iraq during the George W. Bush administration. “It is a damn strange pick.”

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As recently as March 4, Trump called the invasion of Iraq “the single worst decision ever made.”…

As a candidate in 2016, Trump vowed that the U.S. would “stop racing to topple foreign regimes.” In January, Bolton wrote that “America’s declared policy should be ending Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution before its 40th anniversary.”

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