Thursday, March 29, 2018

The Kidman Doctrine Trumps George Will As John Bolton Rises

George has no standing to say that Trump has no convictions.

Mr. Trump has drastically reduced illegal immigration, reformed and reduced taxes, deregulated, stimulated economic growth, succeeded in gaining Chinas serious cooperation in dissuading North Korea from gaining a nuclear first-strike capacity, and armed the Ukrainians with anti-tank weapons and committed to providing Eastern Europe with anti-missile defenses.

With a more suave individual enacting the same policies, George Will would, on past form, be an appreciative supporter; it is dismaying that such a substantive person and eminent commentator and old friend is unable to distinguish often annoying Trump flimflam and posturing from the substance accomplished by an administration that has, despite the continuing war with most of the political class, had the most successful first year of any newly elected administration since Eisenhowers, if not Franklin D. Roosevelts.

President Trump said to the New York Times at the time of his visit to China several months ago that he had indeed deferred taking action with China on the trade front because of the need for Chinas entire cooperation to deter Pyongyang from nuclear military deployment by a method short of precise American attack on its military targets.

Ukraine renounced the nuclear capability it inherited from the Soviet Union and all major powers guaranteed its borders, a promise Putins Russia has flagrantly violated, and President Trump is the only head of a guarantor country who has done anything about it.

Richard Haass purports to believe that declining to ratify the Paris climate accord and to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and seeking to renegotiate the $70 billion trade deficit with Mexico and drastically amend the Iran nuclear arrangements, are evidence of Mr. Trumps scuttling of Americas preeminent and indispensable role in the promotion of democracy and the free market, which goes back to Roosevelts Quarantine speech in Chicago in 1937.

Mr. Trump isnt the problem, but among the symptoms of the problem are that the director and deputy director of the FBI have been fired for cause as the Bureau virtually became the dirty-tricks arm of the Democratic National Committee, and that, as the Center for Media Studies and Pew Research have both recorded, 90% of national-press comment on Mr. Trump is hostile.

https://www.nysun.com/national/the-kidman-doctrine-trumps-george-will-as-john/90223/ 

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