Donald Trump recently gave a speech on foreign policy. He read it from a teleprompter, which should have made it more polished and presidential, but in reality just made it more boring. It was also littered with contradictions. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"For a speech purporting to challenge Washington’s accepted wisdom, there was much that was familiar about Donald Trump’s first big foreign policy address , not least the customary certainty of its delivery.
A call to challenge radical Islam through “philosophical struggle” as well as military force might even have come from the lips of Barack Obama. Certainly no mainstream Republican would ever disagree with the somewhat motherhood-and-apple-pie exhortation for US presidents to view the world “through the clear lens of American interests”.
Here are 10 passages that suggest Trump may instead be doing what all politicians like doing best: having his cake and eating it.
Some groups “will never be anything but our enemies”, Trump said after attacking Obama for doing deals with Iran. Only he claimed shortly afterwards: “The world must know we do not go abroad in search of enemies, that we are always happy when old enemies become friends, and when old friends become allies.””*
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Hosts: Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola
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