2014 NC Senate debate: on Foreign Policy


Sean Haugh: No global policeman; no foreign entanglements

Haugh said the antiwar themes in his campaign would place him to the left of Hagan. Both Haugh and Tim D'Annunzio said it is time to end our military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States is using its military might at the behest of other nations for "control of resources," Haugh said. America shouldn't be a global policeman, he said, quoting George Washington's admonition against foreign entanglements. Haugh's campaign is steeped in themes opposing war and seeking cooperation through trade and diplomacy.

"I do believe that there are instances where the president has to act" arbitrarily and swiftly, and that is why the founders made him commander in chief, said D'Annunzio. But he lamented "the perversion it's grown into." American engagement in military struggles once were intended to expand freedom and better ideas around the world, D'Annunzio said. But now it seems to be more about other nations using our troops to secure their national desires.

Source: Carolina Journal on 2014 North Carolina Senate debate Apr 8, 2014

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