A Slight Response To Cohen's Op-ed.

++Cohen talks about a 50-year consensus in foreign policy and a policy of supporting democracy and human rights. He chides Obama for not following the freedom agenda of George W. Bush and accuses Obama of having similar ideas to Trump.

++I reject that. But more important ,it seems to me, is that you severely damaged the bipartisan consensus when the W administration adopted the policy of "pre-emptive war" that upended a whole military doctrine and, from personal experience,by torturing people at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib you destroyed America's credibility to voice human rights concerns about others.