This paragraph from a WSJ Op-Ed ostensibly written by McMaster and Cohn is getting a lot of attention today, especially as it essentially confirms Merkel’s statement about not depending on us anymore.

This is an extraordinary paragraph from McMaster and Cohn’s op-ed, and I don’t mean “extraordinary” in a good way. https://t.co/AZwFt6npeu pic.twitter.com/zBvbVAQLwF

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 31, 2017

This is a rejection of the whole of US foreign policy since WWII - you know, the one that kept us from having yet another of those increasingly bloody wars every 20-40 years that finally involved most of the planet and killed so many people that we decided to try something else.