Forget historic entanglements, alliances and enmities: after Mr Trump�s inauguration next week, the world�s most powerful nation will make its own rules. America First looks a lot like America Alone.
The new president may find his goals are out of reach for an isolationist superpower
by: Philip Stephens
�We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
� So Henry Temple, the third Viscount Palmerston, described British foreign policy in 1848, at the height of its imperial pomp.
�England is a power sufficiently strong, sufficiently powerful to steer her own course.�
