The Trump Doctrine and the Soleimani Assassination
9 min readJan 7, 2020
“Do Stupid Shit.”
There’s an old tradition among analysts of American foreign policy: identifying “doctrines” associated with various presidents. These rules of thumb have sometimes been explicit. George Washington, for example, in his 1796 farewell address, concluded his second term with a call to avoid partisanship, and linked that principle to a foreign policy that avoids…