âAmerica is back,â President Joe Biden declared when he met with European leaders last month. âAmerica Firstâ ex-president Donald Trump asserted when he took office in January 2017 and then criticized NATOâs leaders. Which view reflects Americaâs outlook for the world?
The gulf between those visions of Americaâs international role runs deep. After the Cold War ended in 1990, many voters who had accepted armed interventions in Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq as supporting US. security, decided in 2008 that the cost of policing the world was too high. They wanted Washington to wind down the wars abroad and focus resources on Americaâs domestic needs. As the new president in 2009, Barrack Obamaâs task was to begin that process.
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Friday, 2 July 2021, 4:28 pm
On Monday, as I drove from Kerikeri to Kamo, on Radio New
Zealand Kathryn Ryan was interviewing
students from Christchurch Girls High School, who were
commenting on vague but serious claims of sexual abuse, with
the finger being pointed mainly at Christchurch Boys High
School pupils.
It was a discomforting listen, and my
passing thoughts included three movies: The Crucible (set in
the 1690s), Heavenly Creatures (set in the 1950s), and
Clockwork Orange (set in the 1960s). My thoughts also
drifted to the Christchurch Civic Creche case (early 1990s),
where a number of women and one man were charged with