Posted on 04/06/2020 10:44:50 AM PDT by SJackson
Critics are letting their disdain for the president blind them to geopolitical realities.
When a new coronavirus emerged in China and began spreading around the world, including in the United States, President Donald Trump’s many critics in the American foreign-policy establishment were quick to identify him as part of the problem. Trump had campaigned on an “America first” foreign policy, which after his victory was enshrined in the official National Security Strategy that his administration published in 2017. At the time, I served in the administration and orchestrated the writing of that document. In the years since, Trump has been criticized for supposedly overturning the post–World War II order and rejecting the role the United States has long played in the world. Amid a global pandemic, he’s being accused—on this site and elsewhere—of alienating allies, undercutting multinational cooperation, and causing America to fight the coronavirus alone.
And yet even as the current emergency has proved him right in fundamental ways—about China specifically and foreign policy more generally—many respectable people in the United States are letting their disdain for the president blind them to what is really going on in the world. Far from discrediting Trump’s point of view, the COVID-19 crisis reveals what his strategy asserted: that the world is a competitive arena in which great power rivals like China seek advantage, that the state remains the irreplaceable agent of international power and effective action, that international institutions have limited capacity to transform the behavior and preferences of states.
China, America’s most powerful rival, has played a particularly harmful role in the current crisis, which began on its soil.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Contrary to what critics argue, “America first” does not mean “America alone.” ... Whether led by Republicans or Democrats—or by Donald Trump or anyone else—it should always put the American people first.
Not criticizing you. The original was posted last night. It's worth posting again.
The US hasn’t had a President that put Americans first since Reagan.
Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama were all NWO advocates seeking to subsume the USA to the UN.
[The US hasn’t had a President that put Americans first since Reagan.]
That’s for certain.
[Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama were all NWO advocates seeking to subsume the USA to the UN.]
And that’s why they all hate President Trump. /Captain Obvious
Bingo!...Its a common liberal mental illness nowadays.....Its called Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS.....another form is Cognitive dissonance...My recently retired BIL wanted Trump to fail so badly....now he has a problem..He needs Trump to succeed to get his 401K back....classic case of Cognitive dissonance...
Well, colored me shocked that the Atlantic actually ran this piece. They are lefty as they get but the get it right once in a while and I used to be a subscriber.
I canceled my subscription though when they basically had a cover story love letter for Obozo few years back. That was the last straw for me.
A rare moment of truth, in a liberal rag.
Even if we locked down a month earlier the crude death rate be same. Blaming China for us mimicking their feckless response is irresponsible.
The US hasn’t had a President that put Americans first since Reagan.
The Author is a Republican and briefly worked for Trump in the WH in 2018. So no surprise other than the Atlantic published.
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