New York Times (December 22)
2017/ 12/ 23 by jd in Global News
“Many elements of President Trump’s first National Security Strategy report could have been endorsed by his predecessors… Where the exercise runs aground is in the disconnect between the strategy, as it appears on paper, and which in some respects reflects mainstream thinking, and Mr. Trump’s tweets, statements and actions that present the unpredictable public face of his policies.” Basically, the paper itself is “so at odds with the way Mr. Trump has been conducting national security policy that it is likely to confuse people even more than they already are, or more likely, to be ignored altogether.”
