The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.
Mark ShieldsThe organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.
Mark ShieldsThere is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And the one debate with President Jimmy Carter, he stood toe-to-toe and reassured people that he wasn't bound and determined to start World War III on the spot and could make a coherent statement.
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