i think the only one on stage with any hands on foreign policy experience having lived overseas four times. we are at a critical juncture. we don t have a foreign policy and we don t project the goodness of this country in terms of , democracy, open markets and human rights with a weak core. right now our core, our economy is broken. we don t shine that light today we are 25% of the world s gdp. the world is a better place when the united states is strong. guiding anything we talk about from a foreign policy standpoint needs to be fixing our core. second, i believe that after 10 years of fighting the war on terror, people are ready to bring our troops home from afghanistan, rick. [ applause ] this country has given its all. what remains behind some element to collect intelligence, special forces capability. and we have to do that in every corner of the world. but we need to fix this core and get serious about what the rest of the 21st century holds