We need a foreign policy that recognizes its own limits, a common sense realism of strength, limited action, full diplomatic engagement and free trade.
Here’s how I see the most important principles of this foreign policy.
First, the use of force must always be on the table, but rarely used. War should be the last resort, not the first.
War is necessary when America is attacked or directly and clearly threatened, and when we have exhausted all measures short of war.
The second principle is that Congress, the people’s representative, must authorize the decision to intervene.
The most serious decision we make as a nation is to send our sons or daughters to war. We should make it together, and we should vote on it.
Finally, how do we solve non-military challenges in places like Asia and Eastern Europe?
That’s where the third principle comes in—a firm, full commitment to diplomacy and leadership.
Hysteria over election-meddling threatens to reignite the Cold War.
Russia, at times, is our adversary, but it need not be our permanent enemy.
Whether it is the threat of ISIS, or the situations in Iran and Syria, it would be in our interest to work together with Russia where possible, yet this opportunity is slipping by. Obsession with Russian “collusion” or other conspiracies involving the Kremlin and the administration have frozen the narrative and hampered what I believe to be the president’s good instincts on the proper relationship with Russia.
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