Richard N. Haass: “I think it would be criminal as a society--or negligent, I will use a better word--for us not to do certain sorts of…”

Everything we do, everything we are as a society, as an economy, sends a message, sets an example. So Charlottesville, that's foreign policy. When the economy grows, that's foreign policy.

They want to nation-build in America.

This is a civil war. Whether you think it was humanitarian intervention or not, this is a civil war.

Whatever it is we do in this part of the world, multilateralism will prove essential. We simply cannot deal adequately with China's power and China's reach unilaterally.