I would argue that, by having Libya as a proxy struggle between several Gulf States and Turkey on the other side perpetuates the conflict.
we did not make good on those expectations.
this lack of American focus, this lack of American attention, this lack of American leadership.
What I think we need to be focusing on in Egypt, and in other countries as well, is less about talking about democracy a...
We do not actually spend a lot of time talking about resources.
If we do this, we feed into Putin's narrative of encirclement, 'We are at war with the West.'
We have to reinvest in them, in their institutions and their societies.
Today we are spending 0.1 percent of GDP on foreign aid.
It is also a question of whether we are willing to come up with the resources to do it.
That has got to be a challenge to this Congress, as well, I would assume.
We did not fund the support in the community, and we set up a community mental health system that was wholly separate an...