Via Frank "Best Quote: "For all his faults as a candidate, Trump is forcing a sea
change in the American political discourse. His campaign for the
presidency has certainly shifted the terms of the debate over foreign
policy, not only in the GOP but generally. Senator Rand Paul’s candidacy
was dogged by questions about his lack of “orthodoxy” on foreign policy
issues. That orthodoxy has now been smashed to smithereens, and future
Rand Pauls will face no such suspicious inquiries. Candidates will no
longer be required to sing, in unison, “the false song of globalism” –
and we have Donald Trump to thank for that."
The reaction to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s much-awaited
foreign
policy speech from the Washington elites was all-too-predictable: they
sneered
and
snickered
that he had
mispronounced
“Tanzania.” The more substantive criticisms weren’t much better: perpetual warmonger
Lindsey Graham, whose presidential bid garnered
zero percent in the polls,
tweeted
“Trump’s FP speech not conservative. It’s isolationism
surrounded by disconnected thought, demonstrates lack of understanding threats
we face.” For Graham, anything less than starting World War III is “isolationism”
– a view that gives us some insight into why his presidential campaign was the
biggest flop since the “new” Coke. This is the party line of neoconservatives
who have long dominated Republican foreign policy orthodoxy, to the GOP’s detriment.
Neocon character assassin Jamie Kirchick,
writing
in the European edition of
Politico, put a new gloss on it by claiming
to detect a Vast Kremlin Conspiracy as the animating spirit behind the Trump
campaign.