Trump Doesn't Seem to Buy His Own National Security Strategy
The notion of “principled realism” may please foreign-policy advisers, but it’s not clear the president knows what it is.
by Peter Beinart
Dec 19, 2017
3 minutes
If you oppose Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, take heart. Apparently, he does too.
Fifteen minutes into his speech unveiling the strategy on Tuesday, Trump butchered it in a revealing way. In its fourth paragraph, the strategy declares that the Trump administration will pursue a “strategy of principled realism.” But Trump mangled the phrase, declaring instead that, “Our new strategy is based on a principle, realism.”
Although likely unintentional, Trump’s goof was
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