American Values
The Trump Doctrine
The legacy of President George W. Bush will forever be defined by the 9/11 attacks and the dramatic shift in American foreign policy that followed. In his second inaugural address, Bush outlined the nation-building crusade that America was pursuing.
It sounded good at the time. Many still think we should be liberating nations from leaders we don’t like and turning those nations into democracies. But that policy, built on the premise that every nation is yearning for free elections and democracy, has been a colossal failure.
- Free elections in Gaza led to the terrorists of Hamas winning the election.
- Free elections in the West Bank led to Mahmoud Abbas suspending elections. He’s now in the 21st year of his first four-year term.
- Free elections in Egypt led to the radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood seizing power.
- Free elections in Iraq resulted in a government aligned with Iran.
Thousands of our sons and daughters were killed and maimed in wars we were never allowed to win. Tremendous treasure was expended and is a big reason why our nation is flirting with a debt crisis.
American Christians have always been a source of great patriotism and love of country. Many Christians embraced the idea that America’s power should be used for “nation-building.”
It is heartbreaking that the instability in the Middle East created by that policy resulted in a genocide of our brothers and sisters in Christ across the Middle East.
Donald Trump criticized all of this in a major speech he delivered this week in Saudi Arabia. Sadly, it’s been largely ignored by our fake news media.
Trump declared that the hubris of nation-building is over. He said the United States will be strong, and we will work with any nation that is willing to work with us to build a peaceful, prosperous, and stable world.
Author, analyst, and philosopher John Zmirak asserts that Trump’s America First foreign policy is more consistent with the Christian faith than the nation-building foreign policy that brought nothing but death and destruction. He may very well be right.
