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Tuesday, March 21, 2017 --
The recent North Korean missile
tests raise questions about contradictions in President Donald Trump's
national security policies. During his campaign Trump implied that the
United States should fight fewer wars overseas and demanded that U.S.
dependents, Japan and South Korea, do more for their own defense,
perhaps even getting nuclear weapons. Yet a recent article written by
David Sanger, a national security reporter for the New York Times, noted
that Trump had tweeted that North Korean acquisition of a long-range
missile "won't happen" and that his administration was considering
preemptive military strikes on North Korea's nuclear and missile
programs or reintroducing U.S. tactical (short-range) nuclear missiles
into South Korea, which were removed twenty-five years ago. So which is
it-demanding U.S. allies do more or ramping up America's efforts to make
them even more reliant on American power? And this is not the only
Trump policy contradiction.
If Trump is demanding that wealthy allies-both East Asian
and European-put out more of an effort for their own security and if
Trump wants to fight fewer wars overseas, then why does the defense
budget need to be increased by a whopping 10 percent? That proposed
increase is roughly equivalent to the entire Russian annual defense
budget. In fact, couldn't U.S. defense spending be cut to help
ameliorate the already humongous $20-trillion-dollar national debt?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/inconsistencies-in-trumps-national-security-policies_us_58d02c7ee4b0e0d348b34670
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