Was when he talked about going against his instinct, not to get involved. Because of the threat of terrorism, he was going to go ahead anywhere. He rarely talks about changing his mind. The instinct is not to involve in any longterm commitment. He would call it nationbuilding. I think that is a strawman. I think whether its in syria, he wanted to stay up. He was launching cruise missiles. Trump said he leans one way and then goes the other. Ont the trump doctrine foreignpolicy after his afghanistan speech during it follows the similar pattern the again in europe and north korea. Putting pressure on allies is the key to success overseas despite complications. We talked about that change in strategy. What, if anything, did we learn from this afghanistan speech about how the president might operate Going Forward . Seen as aat we have pattern in the trumpet illustration trump administration. He has no concern about civilian casualties. In afghanistan there is been a 67 rise in casualties.
Shortly we will go live to corpus christi, texas, where Governor Abbott will update the track and damage of tropical. Torm harvey while we wait for that, more from washington journal. Is the director of research at the Foundation Board defense of democracy and the new International Project erector at the institute for policy studies. We are discussing president trumps foreignpolicy. Thank you for joining us. Is hisalk about what foreignpolicy. The uc a development of a trump doctrine so hard . Caller i think it is difficult to make without. Pristinee of the most lines for me about afghanistan was when he talked about going against his instinct, not to get involved. Because of the threat of terrorism, he was going to go ahead anywhere. He rarely talks about changing his mind. The instinct is not to involve in any longterm commitment. He would call it nationbuilding. I think that is a strawman. I think whether its in syria, he wanted to stay up. He was launching cruise missiles. Trump sa
Now for austin texas for a look at Trumps National security and Foreign Policy priorities the panel, pat of the annual Texas Tribune festival runs about an hour. [applause] good morning, yall. Thank you for coming out to the perhaps most timely and serious and important of the sessions youll hear at the seventh Texas Tribune festival. By this i mean the deadly serious topic of President Trump and his views on professional athletes. [laughter] hold on. My bad. Im sorry. Trump and National Security. Evan was unclear when we spoke. I just checked twitter and thought im happy to say that this paneled board bid the lbj school of public afirefighters here at the university of texas. Thank you to dean evans for that sponsorship. Im dutybound to remind the audience our sponsors, we love them but they dont get to choose which what question is ask or what answers the panelists offer. We at that time caveat out of the way, let me tell you who i am. Your host and moderator, professor bobby chessny
My bad. I am happy to do say this is from the lbj school of public affairs. [applause] try am duty bound to remind our sponsors but they dont get to choose i asked the answers offered. I am a the moderator and the cofounder of the of leading source for commentaryal for a National Security issues and a podcast that is to the weekly National Security news. We have one hour divided into 40 minutes of discussion and then as you sit there and listen there will be a pocket we cannot get to and i will remind you that please keep the comments brief actually keep it as a question so as much as you can talk as possible. Sine id to your phones but dont put them away we would be thrilled if you ted joined the conversation so i will introduce the of fabulous panel starting with the representative castro. [applause] from my home town of the 20th district a stanford grad after a successful run analysis of washington with the select committee on intelligence it is great to have you here. Senior Vice P
Good morning, yall. Thank you for coming out to the perhaps most timely and serious and important of the sessions youll hear at the seventh Texas Tribune festival. By this i mean the deadly serious topic of President Trump and his views on professional athletes. [laughter] hold on. My bad. Im sorry. Trump and National Security. Evan was unclear when we spoke. I just checked twitter and thought im happy to say that this paneled board bid the lbj school of public afirefighters here at the university of texas. Thank you to dean evans for that sponsorship. Im dutybound to remind the audience our sponsors, we love them but they dont get to choose which what question is ask or what answers the panelists offer. We at that time caveat out of the way, let me tell you who i am. Your host and moderator, professor bobby chessny from ut austin. The cofounder of the nations leading source for online commentary from experts on National Security law issues and also cohost of the creatively named Natio