— Mark GongloffIn reality, US involvement in such bodies has been a source of soft power for the country throughout the decades of its post-World War II global leadership. Softness, like environmentalism, is for losers in this administration’s zero-sum worldview. Yet it’s easy to imagine the US might some day soon regret telling, say, the Global Counterterrorism Forum and Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, to go pound sand.
Replicated under Fair Use from The White House Is Making a $7 Trillion Problem Worse by Mark Gongloff.