Trump was handed a bad hand by Bush and Obama

Remember, America was in a seriously bad way before The Donald rudely burst onto the scene. Both his predecessors, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, left a more divided, polarising and uncertain nation.

At the turn of the century, the US was seemingly invincible. A “New American Century”, the “indispensable nation”, “benign global hegemony” – these were the buzzwords of the US foreign-policy establishment. That all changed when America squandered its blood and treasure in needless wars and suffered its greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Have we forgotten the 2003 Iraq invasion that enhanced Shia Iran’s presence in Baghdad and beyond and helped create the Sunni jihadists who are even more fanatical than al-Qaeda?