博尔顿新书第一章节

THE LONG MARCH TO A WEST WING CORNER
OFFICEOne
attraction
of
being
National
Security
Advisor
is
the
sheer
multiplicity and volume of challenges that confront you. If you don’t like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and the sheer amount of work, and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflflicts beyond description—try
something else.
It
is exhilarating, but
it
is nearly impossible
to explain
to outsiders how
the pieces
fifit
together, which
they often
don’t
in
any
coherent
way.