The Trump administration ran on legitimate critiques of post-9/11 overreach and failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised greater discipline from a national security establishment that has been slow to learn lessons from forever wars, which are meritorious critiques.
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“president Trump ran for re-election promising to transform America's foreign policy and its place in the world um and some of those critiques are ones that you know people like me could find meritan [5:14]”
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Ben Rhodes: The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy— Weatherhead Center for International AffairsCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:23:32 AM
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