Marco Rubio stood in Munich last Saturday and did something American secretaries of state haven’t done in decades: he told European allies they belong to the same civilization, used the phrase “Western civilization” without apology, and grounded the transatlantic alliance not in abstract “rules-based order” but in “the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry.”
Rubio’s Doctrine of Civilization: The West…
Marco Rubio stood in Munich last Saturday and did something American secretaries of state haven’t done in decades: he told European allies they belong to the same civilization, used the phrase “Western civilization” without apology, and grounded the transatlantic alliance not in abstract “rules-based order” but in “the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry.”