Why Trump’s dream of an arch is his most revealing legacy play
“Even at its peak, (Britain) was able to project power in so many places simultaneously because it rationed out its military force very carefully, and because of the framework of exactly the kinds of agreements with other powers that Trump finds anathema,” Lester said.“You know, the only thing America’s ever asked for, particularly after World War II, was no land, no empire, just give us enough land to bury our dead,” former Secretary of State Colin Powell often used to say — in a now-archaic Republican era.
If so, Trump’s new arch may come to stand as not a shrine to personal power but a monument to presidential folly.
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