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Campaign 2016

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Campaign
2016 Marks a Role Reversal on Foreign Policy |

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Gerald
Seib
None of the remaining Republican candidates - Donald Trump, Sen. Ted
Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has the kind of inclination to intervene
abroad...Mr. Trump increasingly questions the assumption among
both American allies and the foreign-policy elite that the U.S. should
be on call to solve problems. Mr. Cruz says he would seek a middle
ground between interventionist and isolationist instincts, and Mr.
Kasich advocates for a traditional activist foreign policy but one
less eager for intervention than neo-conservatives might want. And if
the general-election matchup turns out to be one between Democrat
Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, you can throw out the old
partisan playbook. The Democratic nominee would be the one who
initially supported the Iraq war launched by Republican President
George W. Bush in 2003 - and the Republican nominee would be the
one who loudly proclaims he opposed it.

THE
NEW YORK TIMES
Mr.
Trump's Dangerous Babble on Foreign Policy |

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Editorial
Board
[Mr. Trump] complained that one problem with the Iran nuclear deal is
that American businesses are now losing out to Europe on lucrative
deals with Iran. He did not know that that is because Congress has
insisted on keeping American sanctions in place...Mr. Trump has
said "unpredictability" is central to his thinking. He seems to have
no inkling that operating in a dangerous world - one in which
the United States is militarily involved in many conflict zones
- requires some ability to communicate intelligently and
forthrightly with both allies and enemies. It also seems to have
escaped him that American voters deserve to know what a candidate is
actually proposing.

THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Trumping
NATO |

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Editorial Board
Mr. Trump has famously said he is his own foreign-policy strategist,
so perhaps he should consider that NATO's current role is to prevent
the emergence of a regional Russian hegemon. Such a Russia could
dominate Eastern Europe and exercise authoritarian leverage over the
rest. Investing in the alliance now is a way to deter war so we don't
have to spend more to fight one later. But saying Mr. Trump is wrong
on the merits shouldn't mute the warning for Europeans in his remarks.
Mr. Trump represents a strain of U.S. populism that has emerged in
both political parties that balks at the cost of supporting alliances.

THE
HILL
Trump:
Humanitarian Aid Depends on 'How Friendly' Countries Are |

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Harper Neidig
Trump said that he was generally in favor of humanitarian intervention
depending on the country. "I'd have to see what's going on in the
region and you just cannot have a blanket," the business mogul said,
according to a transcript of the interview. "The one blanket you could
say is, 'protection of our country.' That's the one blanket. After
that it depends on the country, the region, how friendly they've been
toward us."

Who's
in the News

THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL
How
Trade Made America Great
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Frederick Smith, CEO and
Chairman of FedEx Corp.
The odds are good...that today's remarkable transport systems and
technologies will continue to improve and facilitate an even larger
global economy as individual trade is becoming almost "frictionless."
History shows that trade made easy, affordable and fast political
obstacles notwithstanding always begets more trade, more jobs, more
prosperity.

Development
& Diplomacy

THE
POST AND COURIER
U.S.
Support Needed to Help Volunteers Save Lives Globally

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Senator
Bill Frist, M.D., former U.S. senator from Tennessee and founder
of Hope Through Healing Hands; Jenny Eaton Dyer, Ph.D., executive
director of Hope Through Healing Hands
Most Americans do not realize that less than 1 percent of the federal
budget goes to international affairs, and an even smaller fraction for
global health and development. Yet this penny on the dollar is among
the most effectively spent government funding, translating into lives
saved. We know if we can help keep moms healthy and safe, families
have a greater potential to survive and thrive.

THE
HUFFINGTON POST
If
You Want to Solve World Hunger, First Understand Farmers

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David Weiss, President and CEO of Global Communities
Our experience shows that we need much more investment in farmers'
organizations such as cooperatives and associations. Cooperatives are
one of the best ways to reach large numbers of smallholder farmers to
achieve scale, purchase large quantities of inputs at a reduced price
and provide a market access point for buyers...We've seen this
approach succeed, partnering with USAID on the Cooperative Development
Program, which works with over 70 cooperatives in Mongolia, Rwanda,
Uganda and Kenya.

Politics
& Foreign Policy

THE
WASHINGTON POST
U.S.
Leadership Matters Today, Just As It Did After World War II |

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Fred Hiatt
The temptation to withdraw has never been far below the surface of
U.S. politics. Americans have been complaining for decades that allies
haven't been paying their fair share. U.S. partners often have seemed
no more deserving of our help than Mideast nations do today, and the
United States has had rip-roaring fights with all of them over trade
with Japanese, missile deployments with Germans, human rights with
South Koreans. Always Americans asked, understandably, why we were
spending money overseas that we could be spending here at home. But
always there were politicians who would take up the hard work of
making the case for U.S. leadership, beginning with presidents such as
Truman and Kennedy, Reagan and Clinton. That's a tradition that stands
in danger today.

REUTERS
Nuclear
Terrorism Fears Loom Over Obama's Final Atomic Summit |
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Matt
Spetalnick and David Brunnstrom
With less than 10 months left in office to follow through on one of
his signature foreign policy initiatives, Obama will convene leaders
from more than 50 countries in Washington this week for his fourth and
final Nuclear Security Summit, a high-level diplomatic process that
started and will end on his watch. A boycott by Russian President
Vladimir Putin, apparently unwilling to join in a U.S.-dominated
gathering at a time of increased tensions between Washington and
Moscow, adds to doubts that the meeting will yield major results.

THE ATLANTIC
Obama Promised to End America's Wars - Has He? |

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Edward Delman
While America's military footprint abroad is fainter today than when
Obama took office, it's also more dispersed. Not counting the probable
expansion of the anti-ISIS campaign to Libya and other parts of Africa
in the near future, the U.S. military is, by my reckoning, involved in
more countries now than when Obama took office in 2009, albeit to
varying degrees.


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