Teaching a New U.S. Generation

In the Middle East as in Ukraine, the president is discovering that simple bullying tricks don’t resolve complex international crises.

The U.S. must decide what type of foreign policy it wants to pursue: one based on the humanism of Abraham Lincoln or one based on the arrogance of those who want it to be the world’s policeman.

[T]he Republican president managed to make the meeting revolve around his interests — the debate about the 5% — and left out ... the White House’s attitude toward the Kremlin.