Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president—a development that no one, including Trump, foresaw a year ago—it may be a good time to consider what he might do if he beats Hillary Clinton this fall. The “major foreign policy address” that the billionaire developer gave last week suggests he is trying to figure that out along with the rest of us.
Trump’s main foreign policy strength, writes Jacob Sullum, is his willingness to tell the truth about the disastrous interventions championed by Republicans as well as Democrats during the last few decades. He has long been critical of the war in Iraq (not quite since the invasion, but almost), and he sees the same pattern playing out in Libya, Syria, and Egypt: The U.S. heedlessly topples a secular dictator, promoting instability and Islamic terrorism. Unfortunately, Trump also believes the United States does not allocate enough money to the military, even though it outstrips the next seven biggest spenders combined. “We will spend what we need to rebuild our military,” he says, criticizing post-2010 cuts that followed dramatic increases during the Bush administration.
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