President Trump’s tariffs and other trade actions mark the abandonment of a 70-year American effort to lead the world to a more open trade system. “Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” Trump tweeted this month — an inane echo of Cheney’s hubris about the Iraq war. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe final risk, of course, is a war with North Korea. The basic problem: There’s almost no chance that North Korea will agree to the kind of verifiable denuclearization that Trump talks about. A recent Pew survey found that 43 percent of Americans still believe that invading Iraq was the correct decision.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2018 23:03 UTC