Robust Military Role Abroad

Two days after the presidential election, Eliot A. Cohen — military historian, former counselor to Condoleezza Rice at the State Department and impassioned Never Trumper — wrote an essay in The American Interest intended to console his anxious friends. Yes, he conceded, the notion of a Donald J. Trump presidency was far from ideal (“dreadful” was the precise word he used), but he'd still advise fellow Republicans to work for the new president, so long as each kept an unsigned letter of resignation just a file drawer away.