Bolton is a failure. He was a failure when he was the UN Ambassador under "W." He alienated everyone at the UN and was mostly alone when he demanded to give a speech. He was horrible and he still is. He doesn't care who dies and neither does Trump. The difference between Bolton and Haley is that Bolton never has to be lectured by Trump to get it right.

Here, Bolton made the Middle East news. A USA national security adviser either doesn't have a strong stomach to listen to a torture tap or simply doesn't care about Americans, their interests, including safety for American citizens.

28 November 2018

US National Security Adviser John Bolton (click here) has said he doesn't need to listen to the audio recording of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder because he doesn’t understand Arabic.

Speaking to reporters in a confrontational manner on Tuesday, Bolton asked: “Why do you think I should? What do you think I'll learn from it?”

“I’m just trying to make the point that everybody who says ‘why don’t you listen to the tape’ – unless you speak Arabic, what are you going to get from it?” he said.

Bolton's comments come as US President Donald Trump is under pressure from members of his own Republican party, as well as US intelligence officials and Democrats, to take decisive action to hold Saudi leaders accountable for Khashoggi's murder.

Trump's administration has defended Saudi Arabia and its crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, since the killing of Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and prominent columnist for the Washington Post who was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.

As national security adviser, Bolton reports directly to Trump on matters relating to foreign policy and military affairs and leads the National Security Council, which dictates the White House's national security policy to other branches of the federal government....