Trump’s ‘recipe for isolation and self-destruction’

November 4, 2019
Wayne Lee
San Francisco
 
A couple of additional thoughts to Mr. Morasci’s letter (“No, the president is not ‘cleaning house,’” Oct. 10:
 
Trump claimed he will clean out the swamp in D.C., then filled his cabinet with corporate cronies who had no concept of public service. Instead, they tried to use their positions and our tax dollars for their own comfort.
 
Second, he’s seriously corroded the U.S. position as a moral leader, not only by reneging on the Iran and Paris accords. His betrayal of our Kurd partners is another example of his continual efforts to erode our credibility as a trustworthy ally. More importantly, his decision is leading to genocide. Once more, he displays blindness to and lack of concern for the consequences of his acts.
 
Trump apparently believes the US can go it alone in this interconnected world. He’s forgotten that no nation is an island ... that the U.S. would not exist except for the help of our ally France in the Revolutionary War as well as joint Allied cooperation in the two world wars that led to ultimate victory over despotism. To continually insult and/or abandon friends is a clear recipe for isolation and self-destruction.
 

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