It would be easy to blame Donald Trump for the  disarray in the transatlantic alliance, but twenty-five years of American exceptionalism is the real culprit.  The aggressive expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the Clinton and Bush administrations over the objections of our West European allies began a period of discontinuity that still exists.  Bush deepened the disarray in 2002 with his “axis of evil” speech that set the stage for the invasion of Iraq.  Bush and Barack Obama considered Afghanistan the “good war,” which brought two full decades of chaos throughout Southwest Asia.  President Joe Biden contributed to the fault lines within the transatlantic alliance with his failure to consult our allies on the Afghan withdrawal. More

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