Now that President Obama has returned from Havana, where he worked
to reestablish relations with a former adversary, an unexpected foreign policy
debate is emerging—not the longstanding hot-button issue of outreach to
America’s enemies, but the subtler question of how America should handle its
friends. For the first time in several decades, this year’s presidential
foreign policy debate could go beyond when America should work with allies, asking
whether they’re worth having at all. While the president was overseas, Donald Trump went on
offense—only his target was not the Castro regime, Iran, or even North Korea.
Instead, he took aim at Germany, Japan, and South Korea, core American …read more
Source: The New Republic
