[inaudible conversations] let me start with a few preliminaries about todays newsmaker. I am david anderson. A longtime member of the club and member of the clubs newsmaker committee. Im an attorney, years ago i was was correspondent for the cincinnati herald. The there may be a lot of folks who are not journalists in here so do re speak the members of the media, who may be here, and asking questions. And many of those may be working journalists and so please understand that theyre here to do a job. Now, after our guest makes his opening remarks youll have chance to ask questions. When you do please identify yourself, name and affiliation. Before we get started, id like to mention some Upcoming Event test club. On march 21st, a panel on the South China Sea dispute. And that will include various security, economic, and legal issues. On the 22nd, the club will also have a newsmaker on millenials, and on march 24th, the club will host john kot ky nin, commissioner of the irs, and that is
Trump than ted cruz. Host you will be made to care t war on faith, the reason to believe. Guest thank you, i appreciate it. Usually authors sharing new releases. Best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subject. They bring author after author. I love book tv and im a cspan fan. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, im brad, defense and foreign studies at the Cato Institute. The question of intervention, John Stuart Mill and the responsibility to protect. For those of you on twitter, you can live tweet this event using cato events. I would like to thank our event staff here at cato who has done so much work behind the scenes to make this happen. Now, the question of intervention is as important now than it has been, 25 years ago many observers anticipated that the end of the cold war, perhaps a new era of peace and stability and since then, however, the United States has intervened militarily in the succession of foreign
Throughout the next year. Into much we will gather the former secretaries of the treasury, and two months later the former secretaries of commerce and United States trade representatives, including our chair carla hills who is here with us today. Later in the year we would gather National Security advisers, and an American Business leaders who have blazed trails in china. Our final program this year will gather former secretaries of state, and next year we will hold a Similar Program in china with many chinese leaders, some of whom are alumni of our programs. To begin the celebration today, i am joined by former, for former secretaries of defense who also happen to be for great americans. All four of them have served our country above and beyond the call of duty, and have contributed to peace in this world in ways too numerous to enumerate. If i began to list their accomplishments, i would have no time for questions or discussions. So let me go right to questions. I will start with dr.
Administration, the george w. Bush administration. We want less engagement in the middle east. We want to turn our backs on a war on terror that seems to many people to be unwinnable. We want to provide less by way of military assurances, fire power in east asia, in europe and this is a replica in a sense of a pattern of American Foreignpolicy behavior after the First World War. People would take the stargel mind now that we had a president named Woodrow Wilson who went to war to make the world safe for democracy and after the war was over and after it was one a lot of americans concluded that the game hadnt been worth the candle. They did not want to remain engaged in global affairs. They did not want to police the world order that had been established at versailles so we turn inward to the 1920s and a Republican Administration and again in the 1930s for much of the roosevelt of administration at least until the late 1930s. The retreat im speaking of now largely replicate that pattern
Tax credits were gunmakers make sure they can make the guns. Theres a new research and Development Grant to make sure we are making the best gun. Is everything you would expect in a bill like this. Im sorry . Yeah, every gunmaker in america has something in this bill. It is kind of have a say in the book a loaded business tree but loaded in a different sense of the word perhaps. Any final questions or comments . Yes. [inaudible] it is funny you should ask that. Do you know paul reiser . Great comedienne. One of the funniest guys around. He is a friend of mine and in fact he has a blurb in the book. He read the Washington Post story today and he said, did you dictate this thing where did you really use your thumbs . I said im bipartisan. But it was all done with my fingers. Now in fairness i would work on a passage, sometimes the paragraph for weeks, four weeks sometimes. And keep going back to edit back to it again and stay on that on this until i was satisfied and then i would email i