Trump's lack of a cogent US foreign policy exacts a toll
While President Trump has blasted the status quo in US foreign policy time and time again, he has yet to show, in his three years in office, how America can be great again - overseas.
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IT WAS bound to happen sooner or later. President Donald Trump ran for office and arrived in the White House challenging some of the most sacred beliefs of Washington's foreign policy establishment.
He blasted the Iraq War and the long-held notion that the never-ending and costly US military interventions in the Middle East are just the way things would be forever. He argued that the time has come to reassess American military commitments across the Atlantic and the Pacific. That the obligation to protect US strategic interests override any concerns about the human rights conduct of this or that regime. That the idea that Americans should lead the way in liberalising the international trade system was passe.
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