Reuters (September 11)
Perhaps without realizing it, Donald Trump is playing a very “dangerous Asian game” His “clear tilt toward India will hardly halt Pakistan’s continued drift toward neighboring China and Russia…. Trump must recognize that getting his way across the subcontinent could bring down a fragile edifice, one that has been propped up by delicate presidential balancing acts since the days of the Truman administration.”
Tags: Asian game, Balancing acts, China, Dangerous, Delicate, Fragile, India, Pakistan, Russia, Tilt, Truman, Trump
Wall Street Journal (May 12)
“There’s zero reason to apologize for the atomic bombing, which forestalled invasion and saved lives…. Mr. Obama, as well as his Japanese hosts, should appreciate that Truman authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, both major military-industrial targets, to help win the gruesome Pacific War as quickly as possible and with the loss of the fewest American lives—and, as it turned out, the loss of the fewest Japanese lives.”
Tags: Apologize, Atomic bombing, Bombing, Gruesome, Hiroshima, Invasion, Japan, Lives, Nagasaki, Obama, Pacific War, Truman, U.S.
Washington Post (March 27)
“What would the world look like today if Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower had shared the foreign policy inclinations of Barack Obama or, far more dangerous, Donald Trump?” In the past, there have always been “politicians who would take up the hard work of making the case for U.S. leadership, beginning with presidents such as Truman and Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton. That’s a tradition that stands in danger today,” which is a problem because U.S. leadership still matters.
Tags: Eisenhower, Foreign policy, Leadership, Obama, Truman, Trump, U.S.
