By Max Boot Max Boot Columnist covering national security Email Bio Follow Columnist May 15 at 9:47 AM President Trump talks in vacuous generalities — “America first,” “Make America Great Again” — and governs in indecipherable contradictions. He champions democracy in Venezuela but embraces a far more ruthless tyrant in North Korea. He announces a troop withdrawal from Syria and then says, “Never mind.
Enter Kiron Skinner, the State Department’s director of policy planning, who seems to be more on Trump’s wavelength. Speaking at the New America Foundation, she harkened back to Samuel Huntington’s famous essay “The Clash of Civilizations” to describe U.S. relations with China. “The Soviet Union and that competition, in a way it was a fight within the Western family,” Skinner said.
But Skinner’s embrace of the “clash” thesis makes perfect sense as the foreign policy counterpart to Trump’s nativism. Just as Trump assumes that non-Norwegian immigrants are criminals who cannot assimilate into American society, so “The Clash of Civilizations” assumes that the United States cannot peacefully coexist, much less integrate, with non-Western civilizations. Hence the emphasis that Skinner and other Trumpian ideologues place on the “national interest.
Anton’s big idea: “Let’s all put our own countries first, and be candid about it.” Great idea — except when it isn’t. Adolf Hitler was putting his country first by invading Poland, Hideki Tojo by bombing Pearl Harbor, Josef Stalin by occupying Eastern Europe, Kim Il Sung by attacking South Korea, Saddam Hussein by annexing Kuwait, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by developing a nuclear program. How did any of these acts make America safer? They didn’t.
So why is he not confined in a mental institudd
War, what is it good for? Absolutely, More deflecting attention from Trump’s criminal activity & his Fascist takeover of our government.
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For a non existent thing it really seems to trigger the
Of course not. Trump is a day trader and has no long term plan.
There is one, moron. It's called America First. But I'm not going to pay WaPo to read your dirty stuff. Remember--America First. LAST.
Calling it a secret is the problem. When he was reminded by video evidence of his campaign promise to force carrier to keep jobs in the U.S. It should have been clear, he has never has a plan. Can't recall promises he's made. Journalists need to recall what happened yesterday.
It's the massive morally corrupt corporations who curry favour from politicians in the form of donations in order to change laws which are the issue not globalization. The same corps who funded a Trumps whole campaign, who he has many friends with and he changes laws for.
Everybody knows tRump is a con artist who loves to create chaos - his doctrine is the Chaos Doctrine.
Republicans serve no purpose but to destroy America's leadership in the world.
Or you can think of the Trump Doctrine this way.... The Trump Doctrine: A series of random, often contradictory actions, with no strategic purpose in mind.
Whatever you call realDonaldTrump, you can't call him dirty. In many public views, He is a simple honest Man whose fault is keeping dirty stuff like AmbJohnBolton around his office.
He’s a disgrace.
The Trump Doctrine is whatever Trump thinks is in his own personal interest at the moment and is always subject to change on a whim. There is no philosophy, ideology, or principle, because he has none. His one and only guiding principle is to feed his own bottomless need.
It's not a secret, it's just dirty.
Making America great for grifters, Trump & his corrupt cronies, isn't a doctrine? And it's happening in the open. Nothing secretive.
He's hearing 'little stories' about Iran from that nut job John Bolton who is thrilled by the prospect of manipulating POTUS into committing mass murder. Hang the war criminals.
Beware the lack of culture .. This is a dangerous situation ..
He’s a narcissist. He says whatever he thinks he needs to in order to get what he wants at any given time. It’s a long string of brazen short cons.
There isn't a Doctrine?
I dunno 'Persians are evil' is a column that you can see through Mr. Bolton's war-mongering past. smh the WhiteHouse so badly wants a war. All this nationalism for the Hell of it, b/c we can go alone we should!, is building to something much bigger: wasting blood & treasure
Sociopaths like Trump make it up on the fly for public service as they have no interest in the public, only in grift and power.
The Trump Doctrine is short and sweet, for his supporters: Own the Libs.
I do not understand the word “dirty” in this tweet.
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