Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question President Trump wants to reduce the american presence in the middle east and replace it with nato how would that work lets get to the bottom line. Last week during his selfcongratulatory speech after the assassination of iranian general cos im sorry mani President Trump made a vague request today i am going to ask nato to become much more involved in the middle east process over the last 3 years under my leadership our economy is stronger than ever before and americas achieved Energy Independence these historic accomplishment shades our strategic priorities. But does that mean the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established by western countries more than 70 years ago to provide collective security against the soviet union after the collapse of the u. S. S. R. And after the 911 attacks nato became involved in places like afghanistan in iraq so whats next assuming responsibility for stability in the middle east would nato accept this new m
Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question President Trump wants to reduce the american presence in the middle east and replace it with nato how would that work lets get to the bottom line. Last week during his self congratulatory speech after the assassination of iranian general cost him selling money President Trump made a vague request today i am going to ask nato to become much more involved in the middle east process over the last 3 years under my leadership our economy is stronger than ever before and americas achieved Energy Independence these historic accomplishment shades our strategic priorities. But does that mean the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established by western countries more than 70 years ago to provide collective security against the soviet union after the collapse of the u. S. S. R. And after the 911 attacks nato became involved in places like afghanistan in iraq so whats next assuming responsibility for stability in the middle east would nato accept this
Thank you all for coming today and staying for the full day and for this final panel. Im brian catoulus for the center for American Progress. Every day it seems like president Trumps National security approach seems like a daily train wreck across the board and on iran, in particular, it feels like a train wreck. But lets be clear. We are where we are today on iran by no accident. What President Trump is implementing right now is an approach which is erratic, its confused but its the product of a very concerted effort to undermine what i thought was important work under the Obama Administration. Many people in the room were part of that inside the government or outside. And we have a great panel which john has introduced and im not going to go through the bios and things like that. What were going to do today is have a bit of a conversation for a few minutes, talking about where are we and where do we go from here. Thats the main thrust, but then were going to draw you in. Theres so mu
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