Subject: Video Request: Corker SFRC Hearing
From: "Haxo, Chris" <[email-masked]>
To: Research_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 09:30:34 -0700

No hurry, thanks!

http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/examining-americas-role-in-the-world-051216

Call to order 31:00

*       Great time for the hearing with the presidential race making us think about our role in the world.
*       SFRC is involved in this, but also should have some distance on the long term goals.
*       Want your thoughts on current issues: Russia aggression, south china sea, migrants
*       What tools are most effective in making progress?
*       How does our indebtedness effect our stance?
*       Baker is a model of public serve
*       I have great respect for Tom Donilon

01:08:30

*       I don't think we should have been so involved Libya, the president was trying to be too cute
*       I don't think we should have overthrown a long term ally in Egypt
*       When we are selective about going to war, what's the best way of doing it?
o       I think the Gulf was a good example. He told the world what he was going to do and then got countries behind him.
o       Put overwhelming force on the ground and only did what he said he would do
o       Go other people to pay for it

01:57:00
*       Pakistan's actions have been hard to stomach.
*       What is your take on the selective action approach to foreign policy?
o       Smart, not every answer is US getting involved.
*       World is watching what will happen in the presidential election. China leader had a different demeanor than when I saw him in February. If you were advising someone that needed to communicate the principle of a new foreign policy, how would you do it?
o       I think I would lay out a paradigm that would give an understanding of likely approaches.
o       It's important to communicate your vision in some detail with confidence. A focus with economics at the center with additional attention paid to allies.
*       How is that different than what we have today? How does selective engagement look different than what we have today, over the last 20 years?
o       Foreign policy isn't rooted in purely idealism or just national interest. Iraq and Vietnam were examples of a lack a national interest. We have had no singular policy.
o       There's been a pivot to Asia, but we've been implementing important trade agreements.
o       We've been strengthening our position in our hemisphere.
o       We need to lead from the front and not behind.