Syria attack response looms over Bolton`s first week as national security adviser
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(CNN)John Bolton faces a baptism of fire on Monday, his first official day as President Donald Trump`s national security adviser. The brutal chemical weapons attack in Syria presents Bolton with an immediate crisis that will highlight the biggest questions surrounding his appointment, offering an early examination of how his vision of the robust use of US power abroad will ally with Trump`s own hawkish instincts. It`s a defining moment for this White House because the attack is not just a humanitarian horror, but also challenges Trump`s global credibility after he fired missiles to punish President Bashar al-Assad for earlier outrages a year ago. The frenetic, emotional hours when revulsion...