Fairness is key. If the President-elect's words are anything to go by, hopefully there will be peaceful relations with other states and the poor shall not have the rich riding roughshod over them. This will be in stark contrast to much of the twisted foreign policy of previous US government administrations who lived by the "you are with us or against us" code.
This code resulted in democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh's removal from power in a coup d'e'tat on 19 August 1953, organised and carried out by the CIA at the request of MI6, which chose Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Mosaddegh. It was dubbed Operation Ajax. Since then, elected governments who refused to sacrifice the future of their people to Western commercial and geopolitical interests have suffered a similar fate and the Fourth Estate covered up the atrocities.
Thankfully, declassified documents, leaked emails as well as tapped phone conversations have uncovered the real news. More recently in the Ukraine, the US almost got away with organizing a coup d'e'tat and pinning it on Putin. A leaked phone call laid bare the plot, which former Dick Cheney aide Victoria Nuland, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs later confessed to.
The war on Iraq, Libya and now Syria is not any different. The US is great nation but for some time now it has been hijacked by politicasters and charlatans who promote intolerance and war-mongering that benefits the military-industrial complex. America lost its way when it started playing bully. It will not finding it by continuing on this path of destruction. A nation can find ways of looking out for its national interests without messing up other parts of the world. One of such ways is called negotiation.
The nation needs to dial down the intolerance and become more tolerant of opposing views within its own borders and its media establishment needs to be de-monopolized and made as free as can be. It is my wish that Trump's words concerning "common ground, not hostility; partnership, not conflict" pans out to be true. If it does, America will reclaim her greatness in the table of nations.
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