Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as “foreign policy realism” focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other extremist organizations.
In Ohio, Trump will argue that the United States needs to work with anyone who shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements. Any country that wants to work with the U.S. to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism” will be a U.S. ally, he is expected to say.
August 15, 2016 PBS.
We are not nation-building again. We are killing terrorists.” President Trump announced an aggressive new approach to the 16-year-long war in Afghanistan. The speech included eight uses of the word “attack,” and only one use of “freedom” and “democracy.” Trump promised to bring more direct force, including American soldiers, to the unforgiving mountains and deserts of Central Asia.
Let us not break fragile countries and try to rebuild it. Not going to work.
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