Should America Ever Apologize?
US President Donald Trump's administration has made a point of reversing or erasing the legacy of his predecessor, Barack Obama, including Obama's admissions of past wrongs in American foreign policymaking. But in doing so, the Trump administration is abandoning a tradition of US leadership that has long served as a source of national strength.
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NEW YORK – Earlier this month, academics at the American University in Cairo declared no confidence in the institution’s president, following his decision to grant US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo an uncontested platform for a partisan foreign-policy speech last month. Pompeo used the occasion to decry former President Barack Obama’s own pronouncements from the same stage a decade earlier, and to issue an implicit endorsement of the Middle East’s reigning autocrats.