There he goes again. Columnist David Brooks picks out certain statements by President Donald Trump’s advisers H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn and conflates “America First” as a global policy objective to the disregard of moral principles in every aspect of the president’s life and policies imputed wrongly to the president.
Brooks conveniently left out what McMasters and Cohn said in the article: “Those societies that share our interests will find no friend more steadfast than the United States. Those that choose to challenge our interests will encounter the firmest resolve.”
What are our interests? I say freedom of speech, assembly, the right to pursue your own interests consistent with a set of laws based on the moral principles of God, and to enter agreements with other nations that are fair to us and beneficial to both, unlike the so-called “climate-change” agreement that gives violators like China and India benefits but no burdens.
Would Brooks have us kowtow to North Korea’s nuclear threats just because we are strong and they are weak? The NATO deal is beneficial if all the participants do their agreed parts, but they haven’t. President Trump was right to complain.
John E. Woodbery, Monroe