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For the last generation or two we've had this question of what America's role should be in the world and I think Iraq and Afghanistan certainly left a sort of place for people wondering Are Americans going to be again willing to send troops overseas . Where do you think we are now. Stay where you are. But where are we as a country now in this question of what is worth sending American men and women overseas to fight for. I believe we're in search of a new story that makes sense in our most fundamental principles in a world that is now very different from the 90s or from the Cold War. And I believe that America's role in the world is to lead by example the rise of a global middle class. And I believe that the way we do that in these times is to create a foreign policy that's more about engagement and collaboration. A national security threat strategy that seeks new alliances to identify threats and to work with other nations to reduce them before we're kind of backed into a corner where it seems the only response is a military response . American boots on the ground or not. For example one of the things that preceded the failure of the nation state of Syria the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega drought that affected that region wiped out farmers drove people to cities created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms or rather to the conditions of extreme poverty that has led now to the rise of ISIS and this extreme violence. So the pandemic in West Africa there are many instances where we're behind the rating the turning radius of the crisis and left with only military responses. Once it gets up and becomes too .