How We Forfeited the Fruits of Cold War Victory

Patrick J. Buchanan, CNS News

Three blunders: First, alienating Russia by treating it as a permanent enemy by pushing our

alliance onto its front porch. Second, pursuing a globalist trade policy that China exploited to become an economic and military rival of the United States. Third, America's plunge into the Middle East, with our forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and then Syria, Libya and Yemen. They availed us nothing and led only to death and destruction.