Donald Trump just wrapped up a very successful tour of the Middle East Gulf states.

He took that occasion of being overseas, quite irregular, to blast the prior administrations.

I think he was talking specifically about the George W. Bush administration as a faulty foreign policy administration.

What he's emphasizing is that there is a common bond in the world,

and that common bond is in the heart of everybody. They want peace, and they want prosperity,

and they want security. What Donald Trump is trying to say is, let's just not get into politics,

let's not get into offending foreign leaders, just start with a blank slate. We want to help our friends, went over our neutrals, not to lecture them, but to create economic matrixes, nexus, in which people find that it's in their vested interest to profit rather than to kill people. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.

Donald Trump just wrapped up a very successful tour of the Middle East Gulf states

and touched upon the tense negotiations with Iran, touched upon the Russian

Ukraine war in addition.

And he took that occasion of being overseas, quite irregular, to blast the prior administrations.

I think he was talking specifically about the George W. Bush administration as a faulty foreign policy

administration in the sense that they were nation building.

He blasted neoconservatism.

He said that they tried to interfere in the internal affairs of traditional societies.

There's all an element of truth to that.

But it elicited a lot of criticism.

Elliot Abrams has been blasting Trump.

Rich Lowry has been blasting Trump.

What is their criticism?

Their criticism is that his traditional Jacksonian foreign policy,

no better friend, no worst enemy,

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