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Thursday, August 4, 2016

The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview

http://lobelog.com/the-myth-of-trumps-alternative-worldview/#more-35328

The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview

by John Feffer
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has staked out a foreign policy position quite distinct from his opponent, Hillary Clinton. It is not, however, “isolationist” (contra Jeb Bush and many others) or “less aggressively militaristic” (economist Mark Weisbrot in The Hill) or “a jolt of realpolitik” (journalist Simon Jenkins in The Guardian).
With all due respect to these sources, they’re all wrong. Ditto John Pilger’s claim that Clinton represents the greater threat to the world, John Walsh’s argument that Trump is “the relative peace candidate,” and Justin Raimondo’s assertion that if Trump wins then “the military-industrial complex is finished, along with the globalists who dominate foreign policy circles in Washington.”
The nonsense written about Trump’s global views has been truly staggering. http://lobelog.com/the-myth-of-trumps-alternative-worldview/#more-35328

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