Rumors are leaking from the Trump transition team about who will fill his cabinet's most important positions, including the role of Secretary of State.

The New York Times reported just two short days ago that the list dwindled down to six names: former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, former Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.

Since then, additional leaks indicate that it would come down to either Giuliani or Bolton. In the words of Lindsey Graham, that's a choice between getting shot or being poisoned.

Let's all remind ourselves of why Trump won; he differed with the Republican elite on three vital issues -- immigration, trade, and foreign policy.

So far it looks like he's staying consistent on two of his three headline policies, tapping Kansas Secretary of State and restrictionist Kris Kobach to lead Trump's transition team on immigration. The President-elect also picked the former CEO of a steel production company and globalization critic Dan DiMicco to advise him on trade and possibly fill the role of Commerce Secretary.

On foreign policy, however, Trump seems to be surrounding himself with the same war hawks that he spent the entire primary season and general election criticizing.

Tapping Bolton as Secretary of State would be a doomsday scenario for the anti-war right, much in the same way that Hillary Clinton was a bad pick for Barack Obama when he had successfully campaigned as a war critic.

Bolton has favored military intervention throughout his entire life. Most recently, he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in March 2015 saying that the U.S. should bomb Iran.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) put it best when he wrote in Rare that Bolton has never learned anything from the Iraq War and the failures of the Bush Administration.

"Bolton is a longtime member of the failed Washington elite that Trump vowed to oppose, hell-bent on repeating virtually every foreign policy mistake the U.S. has made in the last 15 years — particularly those Trump promised to avoid as president," Paul said in his op-ed. "John Bolton more often stood with Hillary Clinton and against what Donald Trump has advised."

Giuliani has far fewer foreign policy credentials than Bolton and less of a detailed orthodoxy though he tends to err on the side of intervention.

During his failed 2007 bid for the White House, Giuliani was strictly a war hawk in the vein of John McCain. In a speech held on Monday night with the Wall Street Journal, the former NYC Mayor stated that the Trump administration's main priority would be combatting ISIS, reworking but not backing out of the Iran Deal, and working closer with Russia.

Given that Trump is loyal to a fault, it's understandable if the President picks Giuliani.

If the new administration wants to be the first in decades to keep its promise and commit to a more humble foreign policy, then Trump needs to look past loyalty and focus on ideology. Of the names mentioned, Sen. Corker would easily be the best to guarantee America won't be bogged down in another decade of failed military adventurism.

Trump should also look past his inner circle and possibly across the aisle, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) would be a great pick for Secretary of State given her past criticism of intervention as well as her dedication to combating radical Islamic terror.

Either way, Trump should stick to reforming D.C. and not cave into the war hawks.