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Buttigieg: End 'Endless' US War, Prioritize Iran and Climate Deals

Reuters

   Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday urged a
   stop to the "endless war" that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and
   a return to the Iran nuclear deal and Paris climate accord scrapped by
   Republican President Donald Trump.

   Buttigieg, a Navy reservist who was deployed to Afghanistan, repudiated
   Trump's go-it-alone, America First approach to the world in the first
   foreign policy speech of his 2020 White House campaign. He outlined a
   policy based on "America at our best," a foil to Trump's "Make America
   Great Again" slogan.

   "The need for a new foreign policy vision could not be more urgent
   today," Buttigieg said in Bloomington, Indiana. "This administration
   has embraced and emboldened autocrats, while alienating democracies and
   allies around the globe."

   He told an audience at Indiana University that the next American
   president must set the bar high on the use of force, especially if
   Washington acts alone, and urged Congress to repeal a law passed days
   after Sept. 11 that paved the way for campaigns against al-Qaida and
   Taliban militants in Afghanistan.

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