Robin Wright writes foreign policy for The New Yorker. She is one of a long line of women reporting on international relations, which has included in my memory Georgie Ann Geyer, Martha Raddatz, and Christiane Amanpour.
Wright does not add luster to that group of intrepid women. Her left wing suffers badly from overdevelopment, making her a lopsided bird indeed.
She writes that the U.S. is viewed overseas as racist and pitiful. That has been true in some quarters since the 1920s, mostly among those who wish us ill.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if people stopped coming here illegally because they believed it to be true? Fat chance of that happening.
We have now an openly nationalist President who views our "allies" as taking advantage of us. He has held that view since he was interviewed by Oprah in 1988, over 30 years ago. Go see for yourself.
He was right then, he's right now. Funny thing about people taking advantage of you. When you stop letting them do it, they experience its end as a diminution in their well-being.
Helping allies made sense in the aftermath of World War II, it hasn't for decades now. The "help" ending does not make them happy, quite the reverse. So ... we should care? Why?
Most of the world's countries would be happy to trade their problems for those of the U.S. As a partisan Democrat, Wright deliberately chooses not to recognize this reality.
