Name: Opinion | Andrew Yang has plenty of domestic-policy ideas. But what about Syria and Iran?
Uploaded: 2020-01-12T18:57:53.000Z
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-The 2020 presidential campaign is heating up

and there are a whole range of issues being discussed,

Adverbs of degree

but foreign policy is really low on the list.

I had the opportunity to sit down with Andrew Yang,

a $1,000 check every month into your account.

After nearly two decades of US presence in the Middle East,

What role should the US be playing in that region?

the region without open-ended military commitments.

So, to the extent that we have allies we can work with

in the region, we should invest in diplomacy.

I think it was Mattis who said, "If we spend less on diplomats,

so the goal should be to spend more on diplomats.

At the same time, I've signed a pledge to end the forever wars.

We've been in a constant state of armed conflict

and that's not the will of the American people

and that's not the way it was designed in the Constitution.

seem to be shifting, specifically, in Syria.

intervention there over the last few days.

Turkey seems moving towards authoritarianism.

Erdogan is emboldened and doing more to protect his own power

than work with the United States and other NATO partners

to come up with a peaceful resolution to Syrian conflict.

What does that say about the future of democracy

-The international norms are disintegrating.

And, to me, Donald Trump has accelerated the disintegration

to pursue things that may not be in what they perceive

if you don't seem to have a higher set of principles

and, unfortunately, that's where America is right now.

to see what we can rebuild and reconstitute

Unfortunately, it's much easier to destroy

but rebuilding trust is what we have to do with partners

If you find that someone that you've been an ally with

has reached a point where they actually don't want to work

then you have to react to that accordingly.

We had this deal with Iran that we backed out of last year.

And it wasn't just us and Iran in that deal, you know.

Now, the timeline doesn't make sense anymore,

so you can't reenter the deal and say, "Hey, we're back,"

and reform that deal with different timelines.

-Can we contain Iran's intervention in the Middle East

I mean, are they an adversary that you think

I don't want to say cooperative relationship with,

-Well, I think that countries have different goals

if you can find a way to satisfy their goals in one space,

while still disagreeing with them in another,

avoiding a nuclear-powered or a nuclear-armed Iran

is a top priority and so you should be pursuing

you have for that relationship in the region.

-Climate change is an issue that's facing the entire world.

How will you work with other countries to save us

from what seems to be imminent catastrophe?

-First, you have to get your own house in order

and try and move towards more sustainable forms of energy.

Second, we need to make it more compelling for other countries

to adopt wind and solar and renewable forms of energy,

And, particularly for developing countries,

in places like Africa, they're going to do whatever

economically, so you have to make that compelling,

which may include subsidizing many of these technologies

and installations in other parts of the world,

which we do, with other exports, through the EXIM Bank,

but we need to be applying that to renewables.

One thing I would do immediately is convene

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