In his inaugural address of January 20, 1961, President Kennedy said, “Now the trumpet summons us again...to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out ,a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?” Will President Trump in his inaugural address on January 20 next month resist language that will tell the world that he intends to be no more than the leader of a big bully nation? Will his words commit him before the world to fight “tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself”? Will he sound like an American President for the world or just for himself? Will he dare to announce that he intends to form “a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind”? No leader of the great empires of the past, empires like the Roman, British and Russian empires, ever had a legal provision in a written constitution giving a readily available solid means to form “a grand and global alliance,North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind”. President Trump can merely announce in calm and measured words in his inaugural address that his Congress has the power in Article lV, Section 3. of the Constitution to admit new states to the American union of states and that he intends to encourage foreign states to apply for admission. That will surely sound the call for “a grand and global alliance” and make President Trump the second president after President Wilson to advocate for a real and lasting new global alliance of states.
Daniel McNeill
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