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\u003cp class=\u0022css-exrw3m evys1bk0\u0022 style=\u0022border-width: 0px; border-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.93rem; padding: 0px; border-image: none; width: 100%; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none;\u0022\u003eSetting aside the brief, disastrous tenure of Michael Flynn, two men have held the role of national security adviser under Donald Trump, and they could not be more different. H.R. McMaster was a pragmatic stickler who valued the customary interagency deliberations that shaped decision making at the National Security Council, and which President Trump found tedious and distracting. \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\u0022css-exrw3m evys1bk0\u0022 style=\u0022border-width: 0px; border-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.93rem; padding: 0px; border-image: none; width: 100%; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none;\u0022\u003eThe president let him go in favor of his diametric opposite, John Bolton, a notoriously hawkish and obstreperous ideologue who was happy to let the council’s customs wither — the better to speak his truth to the president directly. His ideological maneuvering eventually got him fired, though he lasted an improbable 17 months. \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\u0022css-exrw3m evys1bk0\u0022 style=\u0022border-width: 0px; border-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.93rem; padding: 0px; border-image: none; width: 100%; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none;\u0022\u003eIn Robert O’Brien, chosen Wednesday as Mr. Bolton’s replacement, the president seems to have found a compliant, behind-the-scenes worker bee better suited to Mr. Trump’s domineering temperament. His appointment may signal the death knell of any hope to check the president’s worst foreign-policy impulses.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\u0022css-exrw3m evys1bk0\u0022 style=\u0022border-width: 0px; border-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.93rem; padding: 0px; border-image: none; width: 100%; text-align: left; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none;\u0022\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis article is published in full in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\u0022https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/robert-obrien-nsa.html\u0022\u003eThe New York Times\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","className":"richtext reading--content font-secondary"}), document.getElementById("react_quSmc6R87k6lsX2qntrNw"))});
America needed someone to check the president\u0026rsquo;s worst foreign-policy instincts. Instead, we got Robert O\u0026rsquo;Brien.
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