Marginalium

On McMaster’s New Memoir:

Washington’s policy community has become, if not more friendly to, then at least more cognizant of the arguments for restraint in U.S. foreign policy. But it has not yet started to grapple effectively with the America First criticism of liberal internationalism … McMaster’s dark vision of a world where “competition” and threat are endless could well open the door for an increasingly illiberal, unilateral, and militaristic U.S. foreign policy

On McMaster’s new memoir. Obscured by Trump’s less coherent public positions, it looks like the conservative ‘isolationist’ bent is taking on an increasingly hawkish character. Possibly a concern, given Biden’s position as an ‘orthodox’ Democrat, heir to the so-called Clinton Doctrine.