E.J. Dionne Jr.

And these inconsistencies and contradictions about our purpose.

sort of the world will look at us and say, what kind of leadership does this country have on one of the most serious questions a country faces, which is whether to go to war?

It's in deep trouble.

And I think you can tell how much trouble it is in when Mark Rutte, the general secretary of NATO, is getting criticized for saying he supports the president's action in Iran because so many countries in Europe, our longtime allies, are at best extremely skeptical about what the president is doing.

And I think there are many reasons we're going to regret that the president took us into this war.

I think that one of the top

reasons, is that if there was any hope of sort of putting the Western alliance, if I can call it that, back on some sort of track, this set it back even further.

Here was President Trump.

First, he puts big tariffs on all these allies and says they're supposed to take it.

And then he says NATO isn't really important.

And then at times he seems to side with Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine struggle.

And he does all this to our allies.

And then when he says they need to help me in the Strait of Hormuz and they're a little reluctant, he says, oh, my God, why aren't they helping me?

Aren't they terrible for not helping me?

And so how to lose influence with friends is the title of, I think, the president's memoir about this period.

Yeah.

It's very possible.

E.J.?

I think that you can go all the way back to when Netanyahu appeared before Congress, and he was invited by the Republicans, notably, not the Democrats, and gave a speech attacking President Obama's deal with Iran.

And to have a foreign leader come before Congress at the invitation of only one party—