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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. President 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…