The View from Right Field

Break - and "Someday We'll Go All The Way"

I'm on break until the end of May.  See you then.  In the meantime, listen to Eddie Vedder sing "Someday We'll Go All the Way," knowing that we did:

Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Need for Allies

A couple of weeks ago, Daniel Henninger wrote in The Wall Street Journal that you shouldn’t look for the theory of Donald Trump’s foreign policy by comparing it to other theories, such as neoconservative, Scowcroftian realist, or (my words) an Obama-like leading from behind.

Mr. Henninger said, instead, that it might be possible “to see the shape of an emerging strategy” in “the minds of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.”  Noting President Trump’s statement that NATO “is no longer obsolete,” Mr. Henninger said that we might be able “to see a president moving toward the outlines of a foreign policy that, for a president who likes to keep it simple, may be described with one word: allies.”