Foreign-policy experts grow more hostile to Trump as N. Korea tests missiles
By Jose A. DelReal September 18 at 7:02 PM
The foreign-policy establishment remains overwhelmingly opposed to Donald Trump’s bid for the White House, unifying around Hillary Clinton as the only responsible option despite ideological differences — support that has been brought into sharper focus in the week since North Korea defiantly launched its fifth nuclear test.
As Kim Jong Un’s authoritarian regime remains belligerently committed to developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, several international security experts warn that the next president will probably face the culmination of those efforts. And they worry that Trump is ill equipped to navigate the complicated geopolitical forces at play.
Eliot Cohen, an active anti-Trump voice, said that he has never seen foreign-policy professionals so stridently hostile to a candidate.
“He is not only an ignoramus, but he’s a dangerous ignoramus who doesn’t know the first thing about foreign policy and doesn’t care and has some very dangerous instincts,” Cohen, who served in the George W. Bush administration, told The Washington Post in a recent interview. “Part of what is so dangerous about him is not just his ignorance and contempt for our alliances, but his failure to understand how important these have been to our security since 1945. And he has already done a lot of damage. Our allies are deeply shaken by this election.”
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