Leading president ial candidates. Indiana punches above its weight when it comes to president s and Vice President s. Benjamin harrison. The greatest of them all, abraham lincoln. Unless you already got a state of course come t the latest twoyear infantry into the sweepstakes is mayor. [applause] we welcome the mayor to bloomington and we thank him fom for coming to be with us. Hes onhe is one of 23 democrats running for the democratic nomination for president. That number may go up by this evening. [applause] two of you are not applauding and i cant figure out why. [laughter] the grand ritual of democracy selection of the u. S. President is no underlay in. The starting out of these and others of course for the host of other offices and eventually the next president. Some of us here believe the thae outcome of these will determine the wellbeing. In my case it is a long, long time. [laughter] we admire and appreciate the mayor. Five years of his private life. Since 2012, hes been mayor of south bend indiana. Hes a graduate of harvard college, graduate of pembroke college. [applause] hes lived in washington for the former secretary of he has worked in washington for former secretary of defense bill a republican, and former senator john carey, a democrat. He supports universal healthcare. [applause] i have quite a list here. Reducing income inequality, proenvironmental policies, checks on firearm purchases and he wants to use immigration as a way to strengthen our country. [applause] he would end gerrymandering and abolish the electoral college. He believes every woman should be able to make her own reproductive choices. [cheers and applause] i hope you are as nice to pete as you are to me. He believes a person should have the right to marry the person he or she loves. [cheers and applause] he has become a leading spokesman for the millennial generation and its unique set of life experiences. He believes Representative Democracy remains the best form of government and champions it in an environment at a time when people wonder if majority rule still works. He is a candidate worthy of our appreciation and respectful attention. As he speaks to us now about america and the world, National Security for a new era. I give you mayor pete. [cheers and applause] thank you thank you [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you and good morning. I am delighted to be here. Thank you to you and your colleagues for hosting us at indiana university. I am particularly pleased to be a school name for two hoosiers of global consequence. [applause] these two giants use their indiana values to shape a tradition of American Leadership combining responsibility and restraint with idealism and vision. Thank you for your introduction. By his mastery of the relationship between serving a home district and addressing the affairs of the world we became one of this nations most widely respected state and i am profoundly appreciative over the years. [applause] when we first conceived of this speech we hope to senator lugar could join us but that was not to be. Like so many who knew him i am grateful for the time i was privileged to spend in his company. We were on opposite sides of the aisle but his leadership from the principle stand against apartheid and focused on Nuclear Security was the stuff of true statecraft and what is not to like in a 1time mayor from indiana who cut his teeth as Rhodes Scholar and maybe intelligence officer. [applause] senator lugar, the impact of time he spent with his grandchildren saying what is the world going to look like when they are my age . That takes a huge effort of imagination and it is with that focus on the future and in that spirit of huge imagination that im standing before you. From the beginning my campaign for president has been given by the awareness that we face not just another president ial election but a transition between one era and another. A fact of which the current presidency is as much a symptom as a cause. I believe this next three or four years will determine the next 30 or 40 for our country and our world. In that context im thankful for this opportunity to share the worldview that shapes my understanding of Foreign Policy and National Security. I do not aspire to deliver a fool buttigieg doctrine today but i will illustrate how my administration would manage global issues. I want to lay out how i believe American Interests and American Values can be aligned with a view to everyday life in places like my hometown of south bend. My central purpose is to argue the world needs america more than ever but only if america can be at her best. As mayor for the industrial midwest as a product of the 9 11 generation and veteran of the afghanistan conflict my own worldviews send, shaped predictably by my life experience. When i arrived in college in 2000 scholars were debating whether the end of the cold war amounted to the end of history. The United States appeared to be the unchallenged leader of a global order and the new century was expected to be peaceful and democratic. By the time i finished my studies in 2007 america was mired in two wars and its respect even among our allies had plummeted and no one can be sure the Global Future could be better than the past. I was a sophomore when the towers fell in war came to my generation. I stayed up late debating things like the march toward the iraq conflict in the Student Committee room in harvard kennedys. Unaware that in a dorm across the street a few students were in the early stages of a website that would be the engine of the social media resolution. A few years later i would find myself feeling i was answering for america, for all her gifts and flaws as a student abroad. American first in tunisia and then at oxford at a time the world was growing skeptical about americas leadership and credibility. By the weekend of my 10th College Reunion i was at bagram airfield. The course of my life altered by american Foreign Policy. And through it i have seen in south bend why foreignpolicy is not a theoretical discussion for the americans i serve. From sendoff ceremonies for reservists deployed overseas to Union Meetings of american autoworkers making german branded cars going to chinese customers i have seen the local impact of Global Engagements. The need for a new foreignpolicy vision could not be more urgent today. Since the election of the current president the United States hardly has a foreignpolicy at all unless that seemed like a partisan jab, i should acknowledge that for the better part of my lifetime it has been difficult to identify a consistent foreignpolicy in the democratic party. The Current Administration lacks a coherent policy but it does show a pattern, a troubling one, when it comes to its conduct abroad. This administration has embraced and emboldened autocrats while alienating democracies and allies around the globe. It undermined american alliances, partnerships and treaties, employed tantrums, provoke trade wars while disinvest in the education, healthcare and infrastructure fundamental to our nations longterm strength. [applause] its the defense Spending Priorities according to wars of the past rather than deterring wars of the future and has been hostile to immigration costing us people and skills we need while demonizing those who look or pray differently. [applause] the pattern is decisions are made impulsively, erratically, emotionally and politically, often delivered by means of earlymorning tweet with little regard for strategy and no preparation for their longterm consequences. We need a strategy. Not just to deal with individual threats, rivalries and opportunities but to manage Global Trends that will define the balance of this halfcentury in which my generation will live the majority of our lives. We see workers struggling and inequality growing them in the uneven impact of globalization. We see leaders promise again and again to end the forever wars only to fall short. We see authoritarianism and cody capitalism on the rise blue while Democratic Values are in retreat here at home. We see a season of largely unchallenged American Power transitioning to a period shaped by the competition of newly rising economies. All this while our domestic and global institutions become increasingly weakened, paralyzed and incapable of meeting the challenges we face. At the same time, strange as it may seem to speak optimistically about america and the world i have a great hope for the possibility that our moment is coming. Across less than one human lifetime more than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme, grinding poverty. A global class of young entrepreneurs is emerging from africa to south asia while political leaders my age or younger are shaping the political agendas as they lead nations from Central America to europe. With the touch of a finger on the screen dissidents and democrats across the globe have been connected and empowered, voices one silenced or shunned, voices of women, ethnic minorities have been lifted to demand their rights and rightful place in society. [applause] faced with this moment of enormous challenge and responsibility is not enough just to say we wont conduct Foreign Policy by tweet, nor would it be honest to promise the we can restore an old order that cannot in any case meet the realities of a new world. Democrats can no more turn the clock back then republicans can return us to the 1950s and we should not try. [applause] much was already broken when this president arrived and he immediately set about smashing whatever remained. Paradoxically this opens a unique window to grapple with the world as it is in the 21st century with greater urgency and in some ways greater freedom from before. I often speak of the need for our politics and policies to contemplate the year 2054, the year in which i hope to retire after reaching the current age of the current president. Thinking about the world three or four decades from now is how we need to compete with countries like china because that is how they are planning, thinking and investing. To think this far out in american policy we have to move beyond the news of the day to our deep Core Principles to cope with enormous change, american Foreign Policy for the future must be securely valued in American Values, American Interests and american relationships. First and foremost, values. The greatest strategic advantage for america has always been the fact that america stood for values shared by humanity, touching aspirations be on the border. [applause] however imperfectly, principles of freedom and democracy that stir human beings wherever they live. American strength has grown. Today we worry about the Current Administrations abandonment of the american commitment to promoting Democratic Values. Just a few years ago it was democrats, they undertook democracy promotion so violent and so misguided that it very nearly made a solution us of my party, to untangle the consequences of that scrambled period we must remember the lesson of the iraq disaster is not that theres anything wrong with standing for American Values but rather that any action in the name of such values must be strategic, legitimate and constrained by the premise that we only use force when left with no alternative. [cheers and applause] this brings me to the concept of the National Interest which as any state does we advance our own distinct interests but much depends on the principles we uphold when pursuing them especially in the case of america. The next president must set a high bar on the use of force. And exceedingly high bar, when america acts alone it can only be because core interests are at stake and because there is no alternative. Notably this is not currently true of the situation in venezuela. It is not currently through the situation around iran. It is the difference between the necessary response to 9 11 in afghanistan and the selfdefeating invasion of iraq. It is in short the difference between normandy and saigon. [applause] which brings us to the third pillar, american relationships. Our relationships, bilateral relationships, multinational alliances are the space in which our policy plays out. Each must be strengthened if we wish to promote American Values and defend American Interests. With this framework in mind the paths for the next president are clear. First we must put a end to endless war and refocus on future threats. Second we must promote American Values by working to reverse the rise of authoritarianism abroad. Third we must treat Climate Change as the x essential security challenge it is. [cheers and applause] fourth, we must update the institutions through which we engage the world to address these 21stcentury challenges and opportunities. And fifth, we must do all this while involving citizens in a meaningful conversation about how foreignpolicy and National Security concern or committees and include their voices and values in formulating our policies. [applause] not only must america do this to prosper, but the world he needs america to do these things. The world needs an america free from entrapment and endless war and prepared to focus on future threats. After 9 11 Congress Passed a president george w. Bush signed into law and authorization for the use of military force to aluminate the threat posed by al qaeda and to attack the taliban in afghanistan. That law was barely 2 pages long but is used for two decades to wage wars and launch military strikes. Mobilizing to meet the extremist threat we did achieve a measure of military victory. But as the mission drifted the Collateral Damage to our moral authority was enormous and we far too often bargained against our own values. Congress abdicated its responsibilities on issue of war and peace, we spent 4 trillion and lost thousands of american lives to say nothing of countless civilians caught in the crossfire. I fear that someday soon we may receive news of the first us casualty of the 9 11 wars who was born after 9 11. As someone who deployed to that war on the orders of a president who believed in 2014 that our involvement in afghanistan was coming to a end and i was one of the last, the time has come for congress to repeal the blank check to ensure a robust debate on future operations. [applause] we should never again send troops into conflict without a clear definition of their mission and an understanding of what will come out of it. [applause] we should never again find ourselves in a situation like 2017 where four us soldiers were killed on a Counterterrorism Mission in ohare to have senators from both parties admit they didnt even realize we had 1000 troops stationed in that country. Correcting this is not only a matter of president ial restraint but of renewed congressional oversight. [applause] the time for congress asleep at the switch must come to a end. Members of our military can find the courage to deploy to a war zone, members of the congress to summon the courage to take tough votes on war and peace. [cheers and applause] our military capabilities exist for a reason. We stand ready to use force under specific, lawful circumstances when there is no peaceful alternative. We should use force when there is a clear and present threat to the us, when it is necessary to deter and defend against an attack or imminent threat against the United States, our citizens at home or abroad or our treaty allies and when we ask this of a legitimate International Coalition to prevent genocide or other atrocities but when we must use force we must have a end game before, during and after deployment of troops, we should also deploy diplomatic, development, and Security Assistance to guard against future instability. [applause] it is not enough to define what we would not do or how we would not get dragged in. War itself represents a kind of failure and true success lies in preventing conflict. This is why we must anticipate and prevent threats around the world in a clearheaded and forwardlooking way. Among threats to american and human security, nuclear destruction, preventing the spread of Nuclear Weapons should remain a core tenet of our Global Leadership. For this reason i will rejoin our International Partners and recommit the United States to the iran nuclear deal. [applause] whatever its imperfections, this is as close to a true art of the deal as it gets. As even this administration repeatedly certified it was preventing iran from acquiring Nuclear Weapons. It constrained the military threat iran poses to israel and europe without leading us down a path to another middle eastern war. This agreement was concluded not to do iran a favor but because it is in our National Security interests just as a parallel policy of confronting irans support for terrorism and abysmal human rights record reflects our values and security interests. Recommitting to diplomacy with iran will strengthen our hand in north korea. For decades