In Poland, Trump Eloquently Asks the West to Defend Faith and Freedom – and He Slays It

Last updated on: July 8, 2017 at 9:42 am by Mark Meckler

In Poland, Trump Eloquently Asks the West to Defend Faith and Freedom – and He Slays It 2017-07-08T09:42:22-06:00 Mark Meckler

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Peggy Noonan, at the Wall Street Journal, described Trump’s recent speech in Poland by writing, “Six months into his first term of office, Mr. Trump finally offered the core of what could become a governing philosophy. It is a determined and affirmative defense of the Western tradition.” She said that it did contain the needed foreign policy statements, but it was more.

She wrote:

But—and this shocked Washington—the speech aimed higher. Like the best presidential speeches, it contained affirmations of ideas and principles and related them to the current political moment. “Americans, Poles and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty,” he said. This was more than a speech, though. It was an argument. One might even call it an apologia for the West.

Mr. Trump built his argument out of Poland’s place in the history of the West, both as a source of its culture—Copernicus, Chopin—and as a physical and spiritual battlefield, especially during World War II. The word Mr. Trump came back to repeatedly to define this experience was “threat.”

During and after the war, Poland survived threats to its existence from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Mr. Trump believes that the West today confronts threats of a different sort, threats both physical and cultural. “This continent,” said Mr. Trump, “no longer confronts the specter of communism. But today we’re in the West, and we have to say there are dire threats to our security and to our way of life.”

He identified the most immediate security threat as an “oppressive ideology.” He was talking about radical Islam, but it is worth noting that he never mentioned radical Islam or Islamic State. Instead, he described the recent commitment by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations to combat an ideological menace that threatens the world with terrorism. He compared this idea of mutual defense to the alliance of free nations that defeated Nazism and communism.

Read the whole thing here. Was this speech historic? Only history will tell. But it was damn good… and I hope he does more of it. Many people who don’t even like Trump are noticing and writing glowing things.

What Noonan fails to mention is that was his amazing delivery. The President delivered the beautifully written speech in a way that rose to the content’s highest ideals.

Impressive in every way, a welcome inspiration.

h/t Wall Street Journal

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