Earlier this week in Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump delivered what the White House billed as a 'major address,' which is a long-standing way to signal that a particular speech is meant to lay down a historical marker communicating the president's values. Or, in this case, the lack thereof. Trump's message was that, unlike interventionist Americans of the past, he did not take account of democracy or human rights when dealing with foreign states. His only concern was raw American interest. The host regime, which has had strained relations with the United States over the kingdom's lack of human rights and its 2018 dismemberment of a Washington Post columnist, no doubt welcomed the moral reprieve. 'In recent years, far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it's our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins,' the president announced. 'I believe it is God's job to sit in judgment; my job, to...
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