Re: “,” Sept. 22 Marc A. Thiessen column.
Marc A. Thiessen was happy to hear Donald Trump profess conservative ideals in his United Nations speech. He argued that Trump understands that communism and fascism were destroyed by the United States and the collapse of the Soviet Union has led to an expansion of human freedom.
What Thiessen does not explain is that these events were accomplished by both Democratic and Republican administrations. They developed over decades by leaders who, despite their flaws, took leadership seriously. What Thiessen does not mention is that Trump has undermined NATO, abandoned the Paris climate treaty, withdrawn from trade deals and threatened nations both friend and foe worldwide in Twitter rants that are as unprofessional as they are ineffective.
Given the incoherent positions Trump takes on an issue depending on his mood on any given day, it is a wonder Thiessen believes he can trust this president with any systemic foreign policy goals.
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Marc A. Thiessen termed Democrats’ negative reaction to President Donald Trump’s U.N. speech as “hysterical” and said it is Republican presidents who believe in the principle of state sovereignty and leaders who promote vigorous American global leadership who will fuel the expansion of human freedom and prosperity. Is Thiessen unaware that other nations know that Trump has the lowest historical popularity rating at home, and that his White House has been in chaos since he took office?
Did any of the leaders Thiessen admires, like the sacred Ronald Reagan, face a renegade leader of a small poor country that has somehow accumulated a potent arsenal of nuclear weapons like Kim Jong-un? The last president who pulled off a nuclear stand-off was John F. Kennedy, in the Cuban missile crisis, and he achieved that because, history now knows, Nikita Kruschev backed down, not wanting to get blamed for destroying the world, assuming there would be historians left to blame him.
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