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Donald Trump and the GOP Tradition of Foreign-Policy Incoherence

It's easy to mock the Republican front-runner. But the “more serious” candidates he toppled don’t make a lot more sense.

Peter Beinart

April 28, 2016

Making fun of the foreign-policy speech Donald Trump gave yesterday is easy. He said, “‘America First’ will be the major and overriding theme of my administration,” thus borrowing the slogan of those Americans who opposed America’s entry in World War II. Then, three sentences later, he praised America’s victory in World War II. He warned that, “our friends are beginning to think they can’t depend on us” while simultaneously vowing to be “unpredictable” and threatening to pull out of NATO. He called for “a long-term plan to halt the spread and reach of radical Islam” while vowing to destroy ISIS “very, very quickly.”     http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/04/donald-trump-foreign-policy-republican/480324/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlantic+%28The+Atlantic+-+Master+Feed%29