John Bolton says the president is surrounded with responsible advisers, but an ‘axis’ needs more than just a circle
In his White House memoir, John Bolton, the belligerently moustachioed former national security adviser, calls the few rational personnel around the president the “axis of adults”. But why an axis? Bolton was no doubt recalling the halcyon days of 2002, when George W Bush denounced the “axis of evil” (Iran, Iraq and North Korea), and then Bolton, in a rant called “Beyond the Axis of Evil”, added Libya, Syria and Cuba.
None of that made sense since those countries were not working together, but the word “axis” (Latin for axle or pivot) implied an alliance. It had done so since 1936, when Benito Mussolini celebrated Italy’s treaty with Germany. “This Berlin-Rome protocol is not a barrier,” he said, “it is rather an axis around which all European states animated by a desire for peace may collaborate on troubles.”
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