Doug Bandow
Many of Donald Trump’s most disagreeable policy positions are also those that garner the most media attention. Occasionally, though, his opinions also reflect basic common sense.
Consider his recent argument that Washington’s prosperous allies in Asia and Europe don’t pay enough in return for U.S. defense guarantees. Defenders of the status quo contend it is in America’s interest to subsidize its allies’ security. The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehlcomplained that Trump’s views would “maroon” Eastern Europeans still “on their way to Western integration.” Without the U.S.-Japan alliance, argued Ritsumeikan University’s Kunihiko Miyake, “the United States will cease to be a Pacific …read more
Source: Cato Institute