U.S. Foreign Policy

[Defense Secretary Mark Esper's] job is a lot tougher than Mattis’s was in the first two years. He’s gotten a generous budget from the Congress and . . . now has to turn this vision on paper into reality.

Trade deals are always challenging to ratify in Congress … There will be significant resistance, as Speaker Pelosi has said, to ratifying a [U.S.-U.K.] trade agreement that is seen to harm the Good Friday agreement or the interests of people in Northern Ireland.

On issues such as changing Washington’s perception of Pakistan and building the kind of relationship that Mr. Khan wants between the two countries, it will take a great deal more time and effort.