3. He is a hypocrite on war.
Perhaps most damning of all is that Bolton had the chance to physically participate in war, an activity for which he seems to so often clamor. Despite supporting the Vietnam War, Bolton enlisted in the National Guard to avoid being drafted. Bolton stated that he “had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy,” because he considered the war to be “already lost.” Though the draft no longer exists today, if Bolton were to decide that another war were necessary, how could he validate sending young American men and women to die in foreign lands when he actively avoided such an opportunity?
