National security
The U.S. faces some critical foreign policy issues, but we aren’t talking about them. Short-term campaign controversies dominate the discussion–a dynamic that could undermine U.S. security in the long run, regardless of who wins in November. When Donald Trump said repeatedly that President Barack Obama (and then Hillary Clinton) founded ISIS, the effect was a lot of coverage of what Mr. Trump meant by founded and his followups that he had meant what he said, and then whether his “sarcasm” had been clear. Substantive discussion of Islamic State moved to the fringes. Also unresolved and not prioritized: how U.S. strategy against ISIS is to produce long-term stability in Libya and other places, and how we can defeat the terror group’s ideology.
The U.S. faces some critical foreign policy issues, but we aren’t talking about them. Short-term campaign controversies dominate the discussion–a dynamic that could undermine U.S. security in the long run, regardless of who wins in November. When Donald Trump said repeatedly that President Barack Obama (and then Hillary Clinton) founded ISIS, the effect was a lot of coverage of what Mr. Trump meant by founded and his followups that he had meant what he said, and then whether his “sarcasm” had been clear. Substantive discussion of Islamic State moved to the fringes. Also unresolved and not prioritized: how U.S. strategy against ISIS is to produce long-term stability in Libya and other places, and how we can defeat the terror group’s ideology.
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