So many things are happening in Washington, so fast and so quickly, that if you don’t comment on them immediately, you may miss the chance to do so, because people have moved on to the next big thing – or the one after that. But I think something JD Vance back on April 15 needs to be commented on, even if I am late in doing so, because (i) it’s wrong (on Iraq), (ii) it says a lot about how Trump supporters view US foreign policy and the world (also wrongly, in my view), and (iii) what it perhaps says about Vice President Vance.
In a conversation on UnHerd, a British site, Vice President Vance was talking about Europe, how much he loves Europe and Europeans. And then he said this:
“Something I know a little bit more personally: I think a lot of European nations were right about our invasion of Iraq. And frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq.”
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