Before a recap of President Trump’s escalator ride at the United Nations, let’s take a non-partisan look at America’s recent foreign policy record.

Yes, former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, brought peace to Northern Ireland through the Good Friday Agreement. He ended the war in Bosnia with the Dayton Accords.

Yes, President Obama, another Democrat, ended the U.S. war in Iraq, a fight based on false claims of weapons of mass destruction and links to terrorism.

And, yes, former President Joe Biden, another Democrat, ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Biden also built an international coalition to resist Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — without committing American troops.

Yet over the years, polls show Americans saluting Republican presidents, not Democrats, as best at handling foreign policy and especially the use of America’s military might. 

Well, take a look at Trump making history last week at the United Nations. Having promised to end the war in Ukraine “on Day One” of his presidency, Trump did an about-face on his embrace of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Trump said he now believes Ukraine can defeat Putin and the Russian military. 

This reversal comes after Trump told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in February that he doesn’t “have the cards” to win the war.

It comes barely a month after he gave the Russian autocrat a red-carpet welcome to the........

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