We begin today’s roundup with John Cassidy at The New Yorker and his analysis of the president’s overseas trip:
Trump is scheduled to meet with both Xi and Putin on Friday at the G-20 summit. He will take into these meetings the baggage of his domestic problems, his ill-considered tweets, and his nihilistic statements about America’s place in the world. It is to be hoped that he is finally realizing that America can’t afford to go it alone. But with Trump hopes are seldom realized.
Here is Eugene Robinson’s take on the president’s speech:
The correct response to the terrorism threat, which is real, is to isolate it as an abomination that is as much a grievous insult to Islam as to any other faith — and that has taken the lives of far more Muslims than non-Muslims. The wrong response is to posit that “the West” is besieged by, and therefore at war with, a hostile civilization. That’s a fight in which everyone loses.
