Opinion: Trump’s critics were wrong. He’s not a madman in foreign policy.
The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group passes through the Suez Canal on Thursday amid rising tensions between Washington and Tehran. By Henry Olsen Henry Olsen Columnist focusing on politics, populism, and American conservative thought Email Bio Follow Columnist May 10 at 5:01 PM Time-travel with me back to 2016. Fears were rampant that Donald Trump would not be able to handle an international crisis, that he would react either recklessly or timidly and thereby hurt U.S. security.
Ditto with respect to the Venezuelan crisis. Fears were rampant when the United States and its allies recognized interim president Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s legitimate ruler that a cowboy invasion was right around the corner. Instead, we have seen the opposite. The application of sanctions and the slow isolation of Venezuela’s government and leadership haven’t toppled the dictator Nicolás Maduro yet.
This wasn’t supposed to happen. The mercurial and inexperienced Trump was supposed to be a crazy Captain Queeg, restrained from destroying the United States only by the prudence of the generals he initially surrounded himself with. Remember when we were supposed to rest secure that “the generals” in the administration — H.R. McMaster, John F.
So far, however, there is no indication that such a confrontation is in the offing. Instead, we have a situation more reminiscent of the 1980s Cold War period, when the United States pursued its interests in a forceful yet prudent manner. President Ronald Reagan was portrayed similarly to Trump as a reckless and perhaps trigger-happy cowboy whose silly nostrums would surely fail or get us into World War III. Instead, Reagan and his successor, George H.W.
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