Joseph Curl
The mainstream media in the
U.S. derided President Trump for taking a hard line against fellow NATO members
(the ones who don't pay their fair share). But it turns out one liberal
newspaper actually thought Trump did OK in Brussels.
"Trump Got From NATO Everything Obama Ever Asked For," wrote The New York
Times.
"Now that the smoke has
cleared from the NATO summit meeting, the most tangible result is apparent:
President Trump advanced President Barack Obama’s initiative to keep the allies
on track to shoulder a more equitable share of NATO’s costs. Mr. Trump even
signed on to a tough statement directed at Russia. For once he saw eye to eye
with his predecessor," the Times wrote in its own editorial.
As Mr. Trump, and Mr. Obama
before him, have argued, Europe can do more to help itself. The allies rely too
heavily on the Americans to transport troops and equipment, for instance, and
the fact that France ran out of bombs during the 2011 Libya operation
demonstrated a crucial weakness. There may be other shortcomings, too — NATO is
not transparent with its data.
Greater spending by American
allies might mean the United States could lower its own spending and bring
thousands of troops home. Mr. Trump didn’t make that argument, but he has often
talked about withdrawing forces and closing bases, whether in Germany or Syria
or somewhere else.
Trump hammered NATO last week,
and just before his press conference with international press on Thursday, NATO
leaders called an emergency session to address Trump's criticism that they
aren't spending enough on defense.
“Yesterday, I let them know
that I was extremely unhappy with what was happening, and they have
substantially upped their commitment,” Trump said at around noon local time in
Belgium. “I told people that I’d be very unhappy if they did not up their
commitments very substantially,” he told reporters after the emergency session.
“Tremendous progress has been
made. Everyone’s agreed to substantially up their commitment. They’re going to
up it at levels that they’ve never thought of before,” Trump said. “Commitments
were made,” he added. “The commitment was at 2 percent, ultimately that’ll be
going up quite a bit higher than that.”
“Everyone in the room thanked
me. There was a great collegial spirit in that room. . . . Very unified, very
strong. No problem," Trump said. “NATO is much stronger now than it was
two days ago.”
Now, even The New York Times
agrees Trump did more than Obama.
Weird.
Joseph Curl, The Daily Wire, 16-7-2018
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