Most recently, Bolton—along, it must be said, with a bipartisan array of Trump advisers, congressional representatives and media pundits—opposed any attempt to negotiate peace with the Taliban, the only near-term hope for extracting US troops from an endless, failed war in Afghanistan. This was..…

O’Brien was among a list of five potential contenders Trump named the day before, a list that had apparently been narrowed down from about 15 in the days immediately after Bolton’s ouster. . O’Brien comes aboard as Trump faces a number of crises in the Middle East, including..…

McMaster and, most recently, Bolton, who clashed with the president over a host of issues from Iran to Afghanistan to North Korea. . Bolton parted ways with Trump a little more than a week ago, his stormy ending coming shortly after he disagreed with the prospect of the..…