Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin

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Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin

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By:Pat Buchanan | February 07, 2017

 

Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016?

Our foreign policy elite's answer appears to be a thunderous no.

 

Case in point: U.S. relations with Russia.

 

During the campaign Trump was clear. He would seek closer ties with Russia and cooperate with Vladimir Putin in smashing al-Qaida and ISIS terrorists in Syria, and leave Putin's ally Bashar Assad alone.

 

With this diplomatic deal in mind, President Trump has resisted efforts to get him to call Putin a "thug" or a "murderer."

 

Asked during his taped Super Bowl interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly whether he respected Putin, Trump said that, as a leader, yes.

 

O'Reilly pressed, "But he's a killer, though. Putin's a killer."

 

To which Trump replied, "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country's so innocent?"

 

While his reply was clumsy, Trump's intent was commendable.

 

If he is to negotiate a modus vivendi with a nation with an arsenal of nuclear weapons