Tuesday, November 13, 2018

EDITORIAL_ What Macron got wrong while lecturing Trump

NEW YORK POST

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What Macron got wrong while lecturing Trump


By Post Editorial Board

November 12, 2018 | 7:17pm | Updated



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French President Emmanuel Macron doubtless felt deep self-satisfaction in delivering a public rebuke to President Trump over the weekend. But his smug lecture on the dangers of nationalism ignored both the lessons of history and of today’s political realities.

It was also pretty arrogant of Macron to implicitly slam a US president at a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I — a conflict in which France and its allies were saved by American soldiers, thousands of whom lie forever in French soil. Surely a “thanks” was in order.

After all, US troops also liberated France a generation later from the very fascist nationalism that Macron seems to ascribe to Trump, with his warning about “old demons coming back to wreak chaos and death.”

But Trump’s “America First” nationalism is not the same as the force that drove both world wars. It does not seek greatness by conquest, nor does it mean “only America.”

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