Posts Tagged: Donald Trump foreign policy
Did the US Hit Syria Hard Enough?
JNS.org - President Trump’s decision to attack key chemical weapons facilities in Syria raises critical questions, including whether the limited punitive missile strikes by allies America,...
Donald Trump and the Cry of the Crowd
"The crowd," observed the 19th-century Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard, "is untruth." In these United States, nothing could possibly be more apparent or confirmative. Here, the presidency...
Surviving Donald Trump: Israel’s Strategic Options
While Israel has always been determinedly self-reliant on core matters of national security, this posture needs to become even more explicit in the disjointed “Trump...
Time Is Ticking for Trump in Afghanistan
As President Trump wrestles with America's role in Afghanistan, he should first decide what our objectives are today, compared to what we wanted immediately after...
At Last, A Real Threat
JNS.org - I will admit that this sounds perverse, but Iran's recent ballistic missile test was good news in one important sense. Let me explain. Just more...
What Does ‘America First’ Mean for the Middle East?
Based on his inauguration speech, President Trump’s core message seems to be “America First.” Time will tell how this vision will translate into US policy, specifically...
Foreign Policy Priorities for Trump in the Wake of Obama’s Abysmal Failures
President-elect Donald Trump has just over two months to get his administration's key personnel and top policy priorities in place before Inauguration Day, Jan. 20,...
Trump’s Daunting Foreign Challenges
If nothing else, the 2016 elections have once again reaffirmed America’s solid democratic system. Without any major incidents, tens of millions of Americans went to...
What’s a Conservative to Do? Hope Trump Is Impeached
The disgraceful presidential candidates coughed up by America's two great political parties, each one repulsive in his or her distinctive way, leave many conservatives in...
Donald Trump and NATO
France and Germany are once more considering steps to invest the European Union with real military capabilities. Although similar ideas have often been advanced before,...
Will America Survive a Trump Administration?
At his last and final White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama quipped that “the end of the republic never looked better.” With Donald Trump as...
Season Three of ‘Trump’: Be Very Nervous About Foreign Policy
JNS.org - The last time I wrote about Donald Trump in this column was back in December 2015, when the Republican presidential primary race was in...
Donald Trump Promises US Foreign Policy That Will Put ‘America First’
Donald J. Trump, exuding confidence after his resounding primary victories in the East, promised a foreign policy on Wednesday that he said would put “America...
