Renewing American strength abroad: A conversation with Senator Tom Cotton
Thank you very much, Fred, and thank you to the American Enterprise Institute for once again hosting me. I’m looking forward to our discussion. At the outset, I want to offer some opening remarks about where we are, how we got here, and how we can begin to renew America’s strength.
Some people, especially in the media and the Democratic Party, are astonished that we’re 18 days into the Trump administration, yet the federal government is still functioning. World War III hasn’t broken out. America is still standing. Perhaps our Constitution is more resilient than some believe, our people built of sturdier stuff than sugar candy, to borrow from Churchill. So resilient and sturdy, in fact, that our system can withstand the shock of a Republican presidency—even if the media can’t.
Now, I will grant you that all is not well with the world or America’s role in it. Some lay the blame with President Trump’s statements during the campaign, the transition, and now in his first two weeks in office. Before President Trump was sworn in, for instance, the Obama White House called his comments “unsettling.” One senator said his tweeting is “going to lead to chaos in our international relations.” I hate to break this to you: The world already is in chaos. The world already is unsettled. And I have more bad news: Barack Obama was the president for the last eight years, and it’s his actions that unsettled the world and spread chaos, not Donald Trump’s words.
Renewing American strength abroad: A conversation with Senator Tom Cotton
Πηγή: American Enterprise Institute
