Trump’s Isolationist Manifesto: “All the world’s a battlefield and we’re going to kick every one of your asses.”
by digby
This is from a WSJ op-ed today by Economic adviser Gary Cohn and national Security adviser H.R. McMaster:
The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a clear-eyed outlook that the world is not a “global community” but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage. We bring to this forum unmatched military, political, economic, cultural and moral strength. Rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we embrace it.
That’s exactly what I meant when I said a zillion times during the campaign that when Trump talked about “America First” he means “We’re number one!” The idea was never that America would withdraw behind its big beautiful border wall. It was that we don’t need no stinking allies, we’re kicking ass and taking names. Our way or the highway. That’s Trump. That’s his voters. And that’s why the rest of the world is rapidly concluding that we have become so dangerous that they have to do something about us.
These are the “grown-ups” by the way. The ones who are supposed to temper his more outrageous ambitions.
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