It's also not adventurism, which is this argument that others have fallen into that somehow there's a problem in the world and the only solution to it is for the United States to send Military assets to go solve it. What The President has done is he has, number one, he defines what's in the core national interest of the United States. There's a lot of terrible things happening in the world. Not all of them are at our core national interest. Number two, he defines what the outcome he wants. (06:41–06:46)
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