Doyle McManus: 'America first' increasingly looks like America alone
by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Feb 21, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The annual Munich Security Conference is usually a somnolent affair, a ritual renewal of vows between the United States and its European allies. This year was different.
Germany's outgoing chancellor, Angela Merkel, finally said what she thinks of President Donald Trump.
Without using Trump's name, she described his "America first" foreign policy as one of ignoring allies and promoting nationalism - and noted that Germany tried that before World War II with catastrophic results.
"Pieces of the classic, familiar order ... are falling
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