From Donald J. Trump (born 1946), businessman and candidate for president, April 27, 2016 foreign policy speech at the Center for the National Interest:
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Unfortunately, after the Cold War, our foreign policy veered badly off course. We failed to develop a new vision for a new time. In fact, as time went on, our foreign policy began to make less and less sense.
Logic was replaced with foolishness and arrogance, and this led to one foreign policy disaster after another.
We went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya, to President Obama’s line in the sand in Syria. Each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos, and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper.
It all began with the dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interest in becoming a Western Democracy.
We tore up what institutions they had and then were surprised at what we unleashed. Civil war, religious fanaticism; thousands of American lives, and many trillions of dollars, were lost as a result. The vacuum was created that ISIS would fill. Iran, too, would rush in and fill the void, much to their unjust enrichment.
Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster.
No vision, no purpose, no direction, no strategy.
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Trump challenging war monger Hillary Clinton on foreign policy should be fascinating. It is going to be an important issue in this campaign, and one in which Trump’s positions will have far more appeal than Clinton’s. Like a lot of things Trump has said so far that have had mainstream pundits throwing up their hands in dismay and horror, Trump’s foreign policy, once it sinks in, is going to resonate with a lot of Americans. If nothing else, a lot of Americans are going to think about foreign policy, usually the province of the media and a lot of so-called experts.
For the rest of the speech: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-foreign-policy-speech
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From Donald J. Trump (born 1946), businessman and candidate for president, April 27, 2016 foreign policy speech at the Center for the National Interest:
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Unfortunately, after the Cold War, our foreign policy veered badly off course. We failed to develop a new vision for a new time. In fact, as time went on, our foreign policy began to make less and less sense.
Logic was replaced with foolishness and arrogance, and this led to one foreign policy disaster after another.
We went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya, to President Obama’s line in the sand in Syria. Each of these actions have helped to throw the region into chaos, and gave ISIS the space it needs to grow and prosper.
It all began with the dangerous idea that we …
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