Posted on 12/19/2017 5:20:38 PM PST by Kaslin
Now that the National Security Strategy has been released, the American public can get a closer look at what the Trump administration considers important for foreign policy
The Trump administration released its National Security Strategy (NSS) yesterday to a media and foreign policy establishment that waited with bated breath. Everyone has something to say about it, and criticisms abound. Yet there’s no doubt the NSS got one thing right: China and Russia are indeed America’s major national security threats.
Congress requires the White House to release a National Security Strategy every two years. This document outlines the administration’s top national security priorities and usually forecasts the direction its foreign policy is headed. While this is usually done two years into an administration, thus only requiring an administration to produce one such document, the Trump administration sped to get its NSS out the door in less than one year. That means we can expect another one before the end of Trump’s first term.
That fact alone, regardless of the content of the document, means to signal the administration’s desire to set itself apart from the Obama administration and convey that it’s taking national security more seriously. Despite fighting two wars over its eight years, the Obama administration made clear from the outset that it was far more interested in domestic politics than in international affairs.
Obama campaigned on getting the United States out of Iraq and Afghanistan, which led to a hasty and premature withdrawal from Iraq and the ensuing rise of the Islamic State. He trumpeted his plan for America to lead internationally “from behind”—an absurd tag-line that poorly concealed his desire for America to stop putting its nose where Obama thought it didn’t belong.
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In retrospect, from where else would a horse’s arse be comfortable “leading?”
Looks like Schiller standing back there holding back the fake media.
ha so true.
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