Trumps Only Consistent Foreign Policy Goal Is to One-Up Obama
Donald Trump was sure that this foreign policy thing was going to be both easy and obvious. For him, it was obvious that Barack Obama did not have what it takes to push back Iran and North Korea, and Trump would show everyone how its done.
He told the North Koreans that if the U.S. was forced to defend itself and its allies from a missile attack, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. And regarding Iran, he tweeted, If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran.
Wow the official end of Iran! What does that even mean? Are we going to drop a nuclear weapon on Iran, a country of 80 million people? Are we going to make North Korea glow in the dark from radiation without harming South Korea or Japan or China?
Its actually the language of someone who has never been around military power and has an exaggerated sense of what it can accomplish. Its the language of someone who plays a commander in chief on TV.
He told the North Koreans that if the U.S. was forced to defend itself and its allies from a missile attack, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. And regarding Iran, he tweeted, If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran.
Wow the official end of Iran! What does that even mean? Are we going to drop a nuclear weapon on Iran, a country of 80 million people? Are we going to make North Korea glow in the dark from radiation without harming South Korea or Japan or China?
Its actually the language of someone who has never been around military power and has an exaggerated sense of what it can accomplish. Its the language of someone who plays a commander in chief on TV.