A light footprint in Afghanistan would have been more effective than the aggressive nation-building strategy that was pursued.

“I felt very strongly that actually a light footprint would have been much better. Letting the Afghans run things, taking risk, accepting it wouldn't be quite the country we wanted, but not getting dragged into trying to micromanage.”

The Department of Defense should be accurately renamed the Department of War to reflect its actual activities.

“Well, look, I mean, there's some truth in what he's saying that this always was a politically correct term for it, right? They renamed it the Department of Defense in 1947 after they passed the National Security Act and really made it the Department of World Empire, right? And the Department of Aggr”

The United States should adjust its foreign policy to be less interventionist and avoid unnecessary foreign conflicts.

“on the peace side I think we need to adjust America's foreign policy to be less interventionist where we're you know we're involving ourselves Here There and Everywhere all over the world”

She contends that regime change wars are counterproductive and driven by establishment interests that profit from constant warfare.

“I'm not going to go down that road or we're going to take a different path or we shouldn't be an unnecessary counterproductive regime change wars we should focus on investing in our country and try to work towards a future of of peace and freedom uh and prosperity”

The American people collectively prefer to avoid participating in foreign wars.

“The bottom line, Pierce, on on it is really this, man. It's just there's there's consensus in this country. There's there's agreement among super majorities of the American people that we don't want any more of these stupid wars.”

American foreign policy should reject isolationism and naive diplomacy, favoring a peace-through-strength approach that clearly identifies enemies.

“Our system, the American system, is in fact superior. Our civilization is in fact superior, and our interests ought to be paramount. Not just because we look out for ourselves in the way that say the Greeks or the French do, but because America is indeed an exceptional place.”

Dan Crenshaw believes that Trump's approach to foreign policy effectively projects strength and deters international aggression.

“when you ask American military service members who they prefer they tend to prefer the guy that actually means what he says when he says peace through strength”

The current global instability and rise in conflicts are a direct consequence of the perceived weakness of the Biden administration's leadership.

“It's because nobody fears the scile old man in the White House who talks to dead people and thinks his wife is his sister that's why the world is on fire and don't you dare blame president Trump for what happened”

Trump's foreign policy represents a nihilistic shift toward power for power's sake rather than principled international law.

“It's not realism. It's nihilism. It's power. It's no principles only. Well, the phrase, I forget who used it, was, you know, that the strong do take what they what they can and the weak suffer what they must. That's the way the world was. That's not the way we want the world to be.”

The primary objective of American foreign policy should be to protect national security rather than promote democracy or nation-building.

“What I have argued for is the central touchstone for every foreign policy decision, every military decision should be protecting the vital national security of the United States of America.”