Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech revealed a dangerous mix of ignorance and arrogance

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Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech revealed a dangerous mix of ignorance and arrogance

by Matthew Yglesias at Vox

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/13/11924660/trump-foreign-policy-ignorance-arrogance

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But the brief section — amounting to just over 150 words — in which Trump did talk about foreign policy as such was a mess. Over the course of seven sentences, Trump managed to contradict himself, distort his own record of statements on the relevant issues, and undermine the key policy plank — a ban on Muslims entering the United States — on which he’s built his entire national security agenda.

An effective president needs ideas that make sense, and he needs a team full of people who know more than he does about specifics and whom he trusts to stand up to him and steer him in the right direction. After hearing Trump’s speech on Monday, it’s clear that Trump has none of that and no interest in developing any of it.

Trump’s foreign policy: less nation building but also more

To a casual observer, Trump is pushing a doctrine of non-intervention and calling for a refocus of American foreign policy toward a simple goal: "defeat Islamic terrorism, not nation building."

But read that line in the full context (it’s brief, I promise you), and you see that Trump’s case on foreign policy is not much more than a remarkable mishmash of incoherence.



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[think]

1. Trump is so unfit to lead...

[malaise]

2. Trump’s case on foreign policy is not much more than a remarkable mishmash of incoherence

That's it right there