September 9, 2019 Bruce Thornton
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 began a needed reassessment of our ossified foreign policy doctrines. Trump has rejected in part the shibboleths of “multilateralism,” “transnational institutions,” “democracy promotion,” and “diplomatic engagement” as the most important elements of foreign relations. He’s returned the focus to America’s national interests and security, and to America’s military strength as the guarantor of both. Allies now are valued insofar as they complement our interests, and honor reciprocal obligations. Matching action to words, he’s withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accords and the multinational agreement with Iran on limiting its program to develop nuclear warheads and the missiles to deliver them, and scolded NATO allies over their meager spending on defense.
These moves have all been a welcome corrective to the Obama-era globalist prejudices and received ideas that reduced the U.S. to just one of many international players, one “mindful of its own imperfections,” as Obama put it, and morally obligated to cede sovereignty to supranational institutions and multinational treaties. The subsequent howling of the decrepit internationalist establishment about Trump’s “disrespecting” allies and violating the “rules-based, liberal international order” is the sound of feckless, moribund institutional oxen being gored......To Read More.....
My Take - Let's try and get this once and for all. Negotiations with Muslims is a Sisyphean task. They will never keep an agreement, honor a treaty or negotiate honestly because they're followers of Muhammad, who stated:
"If I take an oath and later find something else better, I do what is better and break my oath."He told his followers to do the same. We have 1400 years of history to show that's what they've done as long as they're been in existence, and it's what they will do as long as they continue to exist. Islam is a plague on humanity. That's history and that history is incontestable.
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