I don’t think I made up the term “Fortress America,” but I can’t remember where and if I heard it from someone else. In any case, it is an apt description of where I believe the Trump foreign policy is headed.

Next year, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence which was the foundational document of the United States of America. Our place in the world has been far from static during those 2 1/2 centuries.