{"id":247421,"date":"2016-06-02T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-trade-and-war\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:54:52","slug":"trump-trade-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-trade-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Trade and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"189.5721323012\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Neoliberal dogma holds that \u201cfree trade\u201d brings peace and thus Donald Trump\u2019s criticism of trade deals presages war. But that view is not only bad history but ignores valid points that Trump raises, says James W Carden.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-19649\"\/>By James W Carden<\/p>\n<p>Shikha Dalmia, a fellow at the Koch brothers-funded think tank, the Reason Foundation, has castigated CATO\u2019s Doug Bandow and\u00a0<em>The Nation\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Stephen F. Cohen for having the temerity to note that the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, has raised several important foreign policy issues which need addressing, and soon.<\/p>\n<p>Those questions include why the United States must play the role of world policeman, whether NATO\u2019s mission is obsolete, why the U.S. always pursues \u201cregime change\u201d when the results \u2013 in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Syria, etc. \u2013 are a \u201cdisaster,\u201d and why Russia has been made into an enemy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19129\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/images-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19129\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in an MSNBC interview.\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/images-2.jpeg 256w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/images-2-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19129\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in an MSNBC interview.\" width=\"256\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/images-2.jpeg 256w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/images-2-160x90.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in an MSNBC interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bandow has praised\u00a0Trump\u2019s independence from the \u201cneoconservatives and militaristic interventionists who dominate the Republican Party,\u201d while Cohen has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/us-information-war-and-the-embryonic-kerry-lavrov-detente\/\"><u>argued<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that \u201cTrump\u2019s questions are fundamental and urgent, but instead of engaging them, his opponents (including President Obama) and the media dismiss the issues he raises about foreign policy as ignorant and dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Dalmia dismissed these \u201cTrump-loving peaceniks\u201d for \u201ckidding themselves\u201d because \u201cabove all, his militant protectionism will mean more war, not less.\u201d In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/626130\/foolishness-trumploving-peaceniks\"><u>an article<\/u><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>The Week<\/em>\u00a0on May 31, Dalmia maintained\u00a0that Trump and those who see some refreshing thinking in his policy statements fail to appreciate the salubrious (and if Dalmia\u2019s analysis is to be believed, perhaps even miraculous) effect free trade has had on international relations since the end of the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>The story, as told by Dalmia, is by-now familiar: World War II was brought about, in part, because European nations took refuge in mercantilist trade policies in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Today, it is virtually impossible imagining, say, France going to war with Germany. Why so?<\/p>\n<p>According to Dalmia\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/06\/02\/trump-trade-and-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Neoliberal dogma holds that \u201cfree trade\u201d brings peace and thus Donald Trump\u2019s criticism of trade deals presages war. But that view is not only bad history but ignores valid points that Trump raises, says James W Carden. By James W Carden Shikha Dalmia, a fellow at the Koch brothers-funded think tank, the Reason Foundation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}