Haass: Trump’s Legitimizing Duterte in the Philippines By Standing with Him

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HAASS: “Sure, he puts the prestige in the United States, he makes it a personal friendship between himself and this is a guy who shouldn’t be allowed within 20 acres of Washington, D.C. This is someone who has nothing to do — he has nothing to do with who we are. He's an affront to who we are and what we stand for. It’s consistent with the president not thinking enough — not — the foreign policy is not just about our interests moving into the nuclear thing, it’s about how the United States is perceived. We’re in a competition of ideas. We’re in a competition of principles. This is the sort of thing we’ll therefore lose the competition because we’re not standing up for who we are.”