President outlines the Trump Doctrine: Prosperity equals peace -- ...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : If Bush wanted to spread freedom, Trump wants to spread gleaming high-rise buildings.
54% : The speech had values, they just weren't typical values -- accountable government, human dignity -- but rather prosperity and peace.
47% : These are universally regarded as goods, but Trump is elevating them over other goods -- especially democracy -- and putting his own distinctive gloss on them.
47% : And there was, as always, a Jacksonian element, as Trump spoke of smashing ISIS, repeatedly bragged about the strength of the US military, and talked of smacking the Houthis.
47% : In the passage that got the most attention, Trump rapped neocons and liberal nonprofits for trying but failing to develop the Middle East because they didn't know or respect the culture of the region.
45% : Trump has his doctrine.
44% : For all that Trump emphasized the importance of the different cultures of different places, his vision is as universalist as Bush's; Bush believed everyone could become a democracy, and Trump believes that everyone can prosper.
43% : For Trump, it's the results that matter -- the prosperity and peace -- not how a given government achieves them.
24% : If Bush's vision advanced an unrealistic view of what motivates mankind -- all yearning for liberty, no yearning for power, revenge or honor -- Trump also drastically simplifies human motivation.
16% : The simplistic way to put it is that what liberty was for Bush, money is to Donald Trump.

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