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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEzra Klein - Trumps foreign policy is dangerously impulsive
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/7/15217492/trump-syria-foreign-policy
The cruise missile strikes President Donald Trump launched in reprisal for Bashar al-Assads chemical weapon attack in Syria are well within the norms of American foreign policy. But they fall far outside the stated boundaries of Trumps foreign policy, and reflect an administration bereft of a consistent, considered approach to the world an approach that would make Americas actions predictable to both our friends and enemies, and guide the commitments were willing to make in the event of escalation or reprisal.
What we are seeing, instead, is a foreign policy based on Trumps gut reactions to the images flashing before him on cable news. And thats dangerous.
Last week, despite Assads horrific, ongoing slaughter of his own people, the Trump administration was comfortable seeing him retain power. In March, Nikki Haley, Trumps ambassador to the United Nations, said, Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out.
This was consistent with Trumps long-held view on Syria, which was that America should stay the hell away. Unlike many Republicans, his criticism of President Barack Obama wasnt for failing to follow through on infamous red line comments but for making them at all.
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Ezra Klein - Trumps foreign policy is dangerously impulsive (Original Post)
TomCADem
Apr 2017
OP
Of course - he didn't get the Employee of the Year award for not following orders
dalton99a
Apr 2017
#3
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)1. The con man doesn't care about anything but what's in it for him today.
dchill
(38,315 posts)2. He DOES care about one other thing...
What would Vlad want?
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)3. Of course - he didn't get the Employee of the Year award for not following orders