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U.S. Foreign Policy Is Officially Incoherent

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Last week, the Trump administration used shaky reasoning to pursue additional sanctions against Iran. The proposal was rejected by nearly the entire U.N. Security Council, including close allies like the U.K and France. It was just the latest example of how “America First,” and the rejection of multilateralism under Trump, has turned the U.S. into a loner state on the world stage. Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories columnist. Fred is the author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, spoke at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night.

0:41.4

The way each of us can best ensure our freedoms is by electing leaders who don't just talk,

0:46.8

but who deliver.

0:48.5

The fact that Pompeo was part of the RNC at all was a break with precedent.

0:53.7

Past secretaries of state have steered clear of the nominating conventions.

0:58.4

There's an old tradition in US diplomacy that partisanship stops at the water's edge.

1:03.8

But there was Pompeo at the RNC in a personal capacity, he says, not a secretary,

1:10.2

appearing in a video taped from the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

1:15.2

And there are freedoms more secure because President Trump has put his America first vision into action.

1:21.2

It may not have made him popular in every foreign capital, but it's worked.

1:25.9

Pompeo was there to boost Trump's America first foreign policy.

1:30.7

And that is the brand.

1:32.8

But it falls short of describing how the US moves through the world.

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