President Donald Trump gave an important speech in Riyadh that may come as close to outlining a “Trump doctrine” as we’ll probably see.

It was a direct counterpoint to George W. Bush’s second inaugural address.

The simplistic way to put it is that what liberty was for Bush, money is to Donald Trump.

That’s not quite right, though. The speech had values, they just weren’t typical values — accountable government, human dignity — but simply prosperity and peace. If Bush wanted to spread freedom, Trump wants to spread gleaming high-rise buildings.

He hailed the rise in the Gulf of a Middle East “defined by commerce, not chaos, where it exports technology, not terrorism, and where people of different nations, religions and creeds are building cities together.”

Notably, there is no liberty

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