Buckley was very clear eyed on this because, you know, he didn't embrace military adventurism, he didn't embrace socially engineering foreign societies like we've tried to do, you know, over the last quarter century. And we shouldn't do that. And We got to be very judicious about how we utilize American military might. But you have to have a foreign policy and you have to understand that the way to deter conflict is through strength. (36:07–36:13)
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