Washington (CNN)Former President George W. Bush returned to Washington on Thursday night and touted a foreign policy view that directly contradicts President Donald Trump’s “America First” rhetoric.
Bush’s comments came after Trump’s decision this week to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, as well as his recent comment that US troops would be leaving Syria “relatively soon” and his continued efforts to build a wall on the southern border to keep immigrants from crossing illegally.
Bush spoke at an awards ceremony hosted by the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank, which was honoring him with a Distinguished International Leadership Award for his work to eradicate HIV/AIDS in Africa. The Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which…