Doug Bandow
President Donald Trump promised a different kind of
administration. But many of those around him remain dedicated to
the status quo. Even after President Trump spoke for the forgotten
Americans who were tired of subsidizing European states which
refused to spend more on defense, Vice President Mike Pence
traveled to Eastern Europe promising to risk U.S. lives and waste
U.S. resources protecting those very same nations.
The vice president’s hosts, observed the Washington
Post’s Ashley Parker, “could be forgiven for
thinking that Pence—with his throwback aesthetic of closely
shorn hair and a square jaw—was just another happy Cold
Warrior abroad.”
Even though the Cold War ended some three decades ago, the …read more
Source: Cato Institute
