Friedman: Trump isn’t interested in fighting a new Cold War. He wants a new civilizational war.

Friedman: Trump isn’t interested in fighting a new Cold War. He wants a new civilizational war.

Every few years, I am reminded of one of my cardinal rules of journalism: Whenever you see elephants flying, don’t laugh, take notes. Because if you see elephants flying, something very different is going on that you don’t understand but you and your readers need to. I bring that up today in response to the Trump administration’s 33-page National Security Strategy, released early this month. It has been widely noted that at a time when our geopo…