Trump throws off the white man's burden

"Great nations do not fight endless wars." If there's one sentence that might endure from President Trump's 2019 State of the Union address, that's the one. It is a straightforward rebuke to the purveyors of the conventional wisdom in Washington, the sort of folks who imagine that earlier empires showed their greatness rather than their senescence by refusing ever to let go, and who like to quote Rudyard Kipling's famous poem without understanding what it actually prophesies. I cite Kipling prim...