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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 08, 2018, 04:39:46 am
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https://warontherocks.com/2018/02/mapping-ideology-in-the-age-of-trump/
During the 2016 presidential campaign and the first months of Trump’s administration, critics sometimes accused Donald Trump of being an isolationist. He had denigrated the war in Iraq, foreswore nation-building, called NATO obsolete, and promised to put “America First.†Calling him an isolationist was a convenient, if inaccurate, way for the foreign policy establishment to label Trump as being outside the parameters of the normal foreign policy consensus.
After Trump’s first year in office — which included bombing Syria, escalating the war in Afghanistan, and authorizing weapons transfers to Ukraine — no one calls Trump an isolationist, yet he still isn’t entirely conventional. Trump’s comfort with military force and the range of threats he sees around the world bears some similarity to past hawkish presidents, yet the way he talks about the United States and its role in the world bears more similarity to advocates of restraint. Trump does not fit neatly into our old categories of realists, liberals, and isolationists. How do we map the terrain of America’s foreign policy ideologies in the age of Trump?
more at link
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Bleh. This hack is a Deep Stater was an architect for the shit stew we have in the Middle East today. His whole argument is that that the interventionist need to rally better against Donny's so far successful foreign policy. Eff that. They made the mess and have no business in this other than dangling at the bottom of a rope.
Someone should corral him back in Harvard Yard and keep him from screwing up the world.
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Actually, looks like a pretty good article, about 5 type written pages but he seems to give the President a passing grade. Pretty intellectual.
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In this article we have yet another interpretation explaining President Trump, the incompetent evil genius.