Writing at the journal Foreign Policy, author Peter Feaver finds himself surprised at the extent to which today’s Trump National Security Strategy speech is in the U.S. foreign policy mainstream. Consider his analysis to be of the “glass half full” variety.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson, writing at the American Greatness website, has an altogether positive view of the speech. For him the glass is full, and the examples he gives tend to support that view.
I’ll reserve judgment until I can read the transcript; my hopes are for a foreign policy direction quite different from those of the two previous presidents. I want to see much less attempt to export our institutions and values to other nations than Bush II sought, and much less apology for imagined U.S. shortcomings than Obama offered.
