{"id":12746,"date":"2020-12-04T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12746"},"modified":"2020-12-03T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T01:06:20","slug":"is-america-to-be-first-second-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-america-to-be-first-second-or-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Is America to Be First, Second \u2014 or What?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;this strange \u201ctransition,\u201d it has been common now to assert that \u201cmultilateralism\u201d is back \u2014 and with a vengeance. Joe Biden\u2019s envisioned team allegedly will jettison the unilateralist idea of \u201cAmerica alone\u201d and supposed soft neo-isolationism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the U.S. will resume its historic but neglected role as the leader of the enlightened world. It will supposedly recultivate allies estranged by Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo. It will now fix broken international organizations. It will eagerly reassume burdens that were neglected or repudiated during the Neanderthal Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result, supposedly, will be a safer, more secure world. The administration will be staffed again by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/11\/bidens-cabinet-the-return-of-the-blob\/\" target=\"_blank\">returning international experts from the Obama years<\/a>. Their excellence is vouched for by their past government, corporate, military, and academic service and their branded education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think all that is a fair summation of the lengthy published critiques, the preliminary giddy statements from designated Biden-administration officials, and the foreign-policy daily op-ed commentariat.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/12\/is-america-to-be-first-second-or-what\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review During&nbsp;this strange \u201ctransition,\u201d it has been common now to assert that \u201cmultilateralism\u201d is back \u2014 and with a vengeance. Joe Biden\u2019s envisioned team allegedly will jettison the unilateralist idea of \u201cAmerica alone\u201d and supposed soft neo-isolationism. Instead, the U.S. will resume its historic but neglected role as the leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3jA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11126,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-is-cutting-old-gordian-knots\/","url_meta":{"origin":12746,"position":0},"title":"Trump Is Cutting Old Gordian Knots","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The proverbial knot of Gordium was impossible to untie. 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The postmodernist author even admits that his own methodologies defy verification, and so leave it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10883,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/president-nobama\/","url_meta":{"origin":12746,"position":5},"title":"President Nobama","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/National Review \u00a0 Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama\u2019s legacy. \u00a0 Donald Trump continues to baffle. 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