While the Trump administration is entitled to reorganize the bureaucracy within the parameters of the law, its indiscriminate gutting of national-security agencies contradicts 2,000 years of great powers using defense, deterrence, and diplomacy to manage foreign threats. Americans are owed an explanation.
LONDON – In 1933, when US President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to normalize relations with the Soviet Union, he told Joseph Stalin that the Kremlin would first have to knock off its subversive activities inside the United States. Likewise, when President Ronald Reagan wanted to ease Cold War tensions, his Secretary of State, George P. Shultz, made it clear to Mikhail Gorbachev that Soviet spooks must stop spreading lies about AIDS being caused by US bioweapons research.
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