In Saudi Arabia, Trump Lambasts Failed Neocon Foreign Policy
In what was probably the most important presidential speech in decades, President Donald Trump repudiated decades of failed interventionist U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East during an official visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.
Not only did Trump lambast neocon nation-building in the region, he more or less vowed never to pursue the kinds of neocon misadventures that spilt American blood and treasure over the past 25 years in the insane pursuit of creating western liberal democracies in the Middle East.
In stark and unmistakable terms, the president reminded the world of the abject failure of decades of neocon and liberal interventionist U.S. foreign policy under both Democrat and Republican leadership. He specifically called out the trillions of U.S. tax dollars wasted in a totally unsuccessful attempt to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into western-style democracies as part of the global war on terror.
This was an extremely important speech, yet it was basically ignored by the MSM, big surprise. But there’s a big difference between containing USSR/Russia and going all end-of-history on the whole world. China has global ambitions evidently as well. We can oppose that without saying everyone has to adopt balance of powers republicanism. Trump seems to appreciate that.