Trump and his 'America First' philosophy face first moral quandary in Syria

The Washington Post: President Trump has vowed to follow a radically new approach to foreign policy that jettisons the costly mantle of moral leadership in favor of America’s most immediate economic and security interests.

This week, crises in Syria and North Korea have put Trump’s “America First” foreign policy to perhaps its biggest test.

On Wednesday, the president stood next to Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Rose Garden and delivered a statement on the brutal chemical weapons attack in Syria that sounded as though it could have been given by any one of his recent predecessors in office.

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