Bolton, the warrior who ran out of war

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Editor's Note: Pedro Brieger is an Argentine journalist and sociologist, author of more than seven books and contributor to publications on international issues. He currently serves as director of NODAL, a portal dedicated exclusively to the news of Latin America and the Caribbean. He collaborated with different Argentine media such as Clarín, El Cronista, La Nación, Page / 12, Profile and for magazines such as News, Somos, Le Monde Diplomatique and Panorama. Throughout his career, Brieger won important awards for his informative work on radio and television in Argentina.

(CNN Spanish) - The dismissal of John Bolton as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump had only a surprise share because of the known discrepancies he had with Trump. In fact, months ago, the president had said that he "contained" it, since it is public and notorious that Bolton is considered a "hawk" among hawks, which in the language of American foreign policy means a man willing to wear to his country to war without measuring the consequences.

The list of countries that Bolton proposed to bomb in his career is extensive, but his special animosity towards the Islamic world stands out in line with the ideas of the famous text Towards a clash of civilizations ?, prepared by the political scientist Samuel Huntington a quarter of a month ago. century and that visualized Islam as the main enemy of the West.

His text came after the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979 and in the imaginary American collective "the Arab enemy" that knew how to be the Egyptian Gamal Abdel Nasser or the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, mutated the "Islamic enemy", in the personification of the Imam Ruhollah Khomeini and then the Saudi Osama Bin Laden, long before even the 2001 attacks.

On Saturday, September 7, the president of the United States, through his Twitter account, announced that he would not receive a delegation from the Afghan Taliban at the Camp David presidential summer residence. The surprise was capitalized because the announcement implied that Donald Trump had decided to receive the worst enemies, those who had been accused of fighting in Afghanistan to those responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers, which motivated the invasion and occupation of that country in 2001 , and that continues until today.

And weeks before, at the end of the G7 summit in France, he had said he was willing to meet with the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani.

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In 2017 John Bolton with absolute conviction assured that the United States should overthrow the Tehran regime. Even - with pride - he dared to say that before 2019 they would be able to celebrate in Tehran. Well, 2019 is nearing its end, in Tehran Rouhani remains in command and Trump wants to negotiate with him. And Bolton? He took out his papers from the White House and went home.

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