06/20/2019
https://congress.gov...
"I am worried that the Trump Administration has provided a free pass for our regional partners on too many issues and that ultimately that may undermine our goals."
"Yet, these ties have endured."
"In his 1980 State of the Union Address, President Jimmy Carter articulated the Carter doctrine, which stated that the United States would use military force if necessary to defend its national interes..."
"Our partnerships with these States are enduring and many date back to the end of the Second World War."