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Trump—Blundering into European Truths
Graham E. Fuller, 05 Jun 12:11 AM
Trump—Blundering into European Truths
Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com)
5 June 2017
President
Trump’s ignorant, oafish and crude foreign policy style rivets our
attention, arouses our indignation. But the drama of the diplomatic
mayhem he wreaks while traveling abroad also distracts from recognizing
more serious underlying problems of US policy— deep negative trends that
predate Trump.
Focusing
on Trump’s latest crude pronouncements encourages the soothing belief
that these current dilemmas are all his doing. In other words, if we
didn’t have Trump, the US would be back in the comfortable saddle as
world’s acknowledged, respected, indispensable leader. The sad fact is,
we can vent our anger as we like, but the old days just aren’t coming
back. It would indeed be a huge relief to be able to attribute our
current foreign policy mess to the incompetence of one individual.
President Obama posed the reverse problem: his intelligent, gracious, sophisticated and knowledgeable style lu...Read More
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