Jon Meacham: Bolton Is ‘Getting a Second Bite at the Apple’ on Using War Power

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MEACHAM: "I think it raises the stakes for military action around the world. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. You have to take people seriously, you take them at their word, and as you say, Bolton has a long record of talking about using American power. You know, one of the things that’s really interesting if you go back only ten years or so is you had a series of hawks in the — particularly in the second Bush term, George W. Bush term, who wanted to exert power even farther beyond Afghanistan and Iraq. And it was George W. Bush, Condi Rice, who didn’t want to do it. It was people like Bolton who did. And what you fear is that that point of view is now getting a quite unexpected second bite at the apple."