Wall Street Journal: Why die for Tallinn?
US President Barack Obama (2nd L) chats with Estonia's Prime Minister Taavi Roivas (L), Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg (C), and France's President Francois Hollande while posing in a family photo ahead of a working dinner at the Presidential Palace during the NATO Summit in Warsaw on July 8, 2016. The Polish capital Warsaw hosts a two-day top-level NATO meeting, first time since Poland joined the alliance in 1999.
Conservatives have been warning for years about the dangerous consequences of America’s global retreat under President Obama, and events from France to Ukraine to Syria to the South China Sea bear out the point. So it’s a shame the lesson seems lost on Donald Trump and his advisers, some of whom ought to know better.
