Forget Democracy in the Middle East. Trump Wants Deals
The speech Trump delivered denounced the failed forever wars of Republican administrations past as well as the failed appeasement of the Democrats, laying out the president’s signature strategy: peace through strength and peace through commerce as the path of the future.
In his June 2009 address in Egypt, President Obama defined his foreign policy as “based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition,” as the president put it. “Instead, they overlap, and share common principles—principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
If Obama’s speech marked one epoch, President Trump’s address marks another. One not built on the fiction of shared principles but respect for our differences and with alliances built on the unflinching, hard reality of economic partnership—even between erstwhile foes.
“The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits,” he went on.
“Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies in your own way,” Trump said.
And his message to our allies was clear: Get on board or get left behind.
“As I said in my inaugural address, my greatest hope is to be a peacemaker and to be a unifier. I don’t like war,” Trump said.
Batya Ungar-Sargon is a columnist for The Free Press and the author of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy
and Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.
She is the co-host of Free Press Live and appears regularly on Fox News, NewsNation, Sky News, and other news outlets.
She is currently at work on her forthcoming book Why the Left Left the Jews, which will be published by Broadside in 2025.
She is a columnist for Compact Magazine and Spiked.
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The Most Important Speech of Trump’s Presidency
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