{"id":68969,"date":"2026-03-14T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-jolene-doctrine-retired-us-army-general-likens-trump-foreign-policy-to-dolly-parton-song\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:55:05","slug":"the-jolene-doctrine-retired-us-army-general-likens-trump-foreign-policy-to-dolly-parton-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-jolene-doctrine-retired-us-army-general-likens-trump-foreign-policy-to-dolly-parton-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Jolene doctrine\u2019: retired US army general likens Trump foreign policy to Dolly Parton song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley McChrystal said White House has a \u2018we should do because we can\u2019 approach to international relations<\/p>\n<p>The retired US army general who once led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nato\">Nato<\/a> forces in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a> says the bellicose foreign policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has pursued during his second presidency can be summed up as \u201cwe should do because we can\u201d \u2013 invoking the lyrics of the Dolly Parton classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ixrje2rXLMA&amp;list=RDIxrje2rXLMA&amp;start_radio=1\">Jolene<\/a> to emphasize the point.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley McChrystal <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jK6QynUylM8?si=2SaDMptCMddzKPkq&amp;t=1426\">delivered<\/a> those remarks on Friday at Tulane University\u2019s New Orleans book festival during a fireside chat hosted by the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, who asked in part about US military strikes Trump has ordered in Nigeria, Venezuela and Iran since Christmas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/14\/jolene-doctrine-us-foreign-policy-stanley-mcchrystal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley McChrystal said White House has a \u2018we should do because we can\u2019 approach to international relations The retired US army general who once led Nato forces in Afghanistan says the bellicose foreign policy Donald Trump has pursued during his second presidency can be summed up as \u201cwe should do because we can\u201d \u2013 invoking &#8230; <a title=\"The \u2018Jolene doctrine\u2019: retired US army general likens Trump foreign policy to Dolly Parton song\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/the-jolene-doctrine-retired-us-army-general-likens-trump-foreign-policy-to-dolly-parton-song\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The \u2018Jolene doctrine\u2019: retired US army general likens Trump foreign policy to Dolly Parton song\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}