{"id":25843,"date":"2017-09-19T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25843"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T22:01:08","slug":"trump-falls-in-line-with-interventionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25843","title":{"rendered":"Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/09\/19\/trump-falls-in-line-with-interventionism\/\">Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>President Trump\u2019s U.N. speech showed that despite his America First rhetoric, his policies are virtually the same as the neocon strategies of George W. Bush and liberal interventionism of Barack Obama, says Robert Parry.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>In discussing President Trump, there is always the soft prejudice of low expectations \u2013 people praise him for reading from a Teleprompter even if his words make little sense \u2013 but there is no getting around the reality that his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly must rank as \u00a0one of the most embarrassing moments in America\u2019s relations with the global community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24578\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-4.31.54-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24578\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-4.31.54-PM-300x202.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-4.31.54-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-4.31.54-PM-160x107.png 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-19-at-4.31.54-PM.png 524w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump speaking to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 19, 2017. (Screenshot from Whitehouse.gov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump offered a crude patchwork of propaganda and bluster, partly delivered as a campaign speech praising his own leadership \u2013 boasting about the relatively strong U.S. economy that he mostly inherited from President Obama \u2013 and partly reflecting his continued subservience to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>However, perhaps most importantly, Trump\u2019s speech may have extinguished any flickering hope that his presidency might achieve some valuable course corrections in how the United States deals with the world, i.e., shifting away from the disastrous war\/interventionist policies of his two predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>Before the speech, there was at least some thinking that his visceral disdain for the neoconservatives, who mostly opposed his nomination and election, might lead him to a realization that their policies toward Iran, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere were at the core of America\u2019s repeated and costly failures in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, apparently after a bracing lecture from Netanyahu on Monday, Trump bared himself in a kind of neocon Full Monte:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013He repeated the Israeli\/neocon tripe about Iran destabilizing the Middle East when Shiite-ruled Iran actually has helped stabilize Iraq and Syria against Sunni terrorist groups and other militants supported by Saudi Arabia and \u2013 to a degree \u2013 Israel;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism Exclusive: President Trump\u2019s U.N. speech showed that despite his America First rhetoric, his policies are virtually the same as the neocon strategies of George W. Bush and liberal interventionism of Barack Obama, says Robert Parry. In discussing President Trump, there is always the soft prejudice of low expectations \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,7844,2127,7203,826],"class_list":["post-25843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-interventionism","tag-robert-parry","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25844,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843\/revisions\/25844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}