When a tsunami hit Indonesia and earthquakes struck China and Pakistan, American forces in the Pacific delivered emergency supplies. That changed over the past 20 or so years as the United States began to intervene, sometimes on humanitarian grounds. (Mr. Trump often refers to the Carrier air-conditioning plant that is shutting down and moving 1,400 jobs out of the country.) The United States launches drones — and keeps a store of 50 nuclear weapons — at the American base in Incirlik, Turkey. And it was Republicans who complained that when the Benghazi attack happened in 2012, American forces were too far from Libya to help.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2016 01:33 UTC