Opinion: Congress shouldn’t put up with a foreign policy this awful
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks in Manila. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 13 at 9:00 AM The Post reported on an off-the-record briefing session hosted by the American Enterprise Institute in which former vice president Richard B. Cheney confronted Vice President Pence:
Well, good for him. You don’t have to be a Cheney fan in the least to realize he is articulating not some wacky adventurism but the most basic foreign policy principles. Foreign Policy magazine reported that the cuts suggest Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s promised “swagger” was empty: Retired Adm. James Stavridis observed in an NPR interview Tuesday, “So when you spend money on defense, on military solutions, it’s like surgery. It’s painful. It’s high-risk. Things go wrong. When you spend money on diplomacy, with our wonderful Foreign Service officers, it’s kind of like going to the clinic and using a variety of different drugs and physical therapy. And when you think about development and soft power, it’s preventative medicine.
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