Quit calling Donald Trump an isolationist. Hes worse than that.
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Source: Washington Post
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The problem is, Trump isnt an isolationist. He is a militarist, something far worse. And calling Trump an isolationist isnt an effective critique.
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Scholars define militarism, broadly, as the excessive use and veneration of force for political ends, or even for its own sake, extending at times to full military control of the state. (Trump has appointed two Marine generals, Jim Mattis and John F. Kelly, to his Cabinet.) Militarism, the pioneering historian Alfred Vagts wrote in 1937, promotes values associated with armies and wars and yet transcending true military purposes. Militarism can be a policy and an ethos, corrupting the pursuit of rational goals.
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Facing a vicious world, Trump promises to turn the tables, not turn his back. He talks of grabbing wealth from other countries, most vividly in his mantra to take the oil in Iraq. Maybe well have another chance, he said in a speech at the CIA. Trump may be posturing, but the posture is militaristic. To announce a lust for oil, to chest-thump about torture, to envisage military parades down Pennsylvania Avenue these do not achieve strategic objectives so much as exalt brute force. Im the most militaristic person there is, Trump said in the primaries. Perhaps he was telling the truth.
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