Senator Tim Sheehy

And I think throughout American history, we've seen various phases of foreign policy, of engagement, of isolationism, of the decision of whether we will engage in global affairs and whether we won't.

And if we do, how we do so.

And I think you're absolutely right, Ben.

We're turning the page now to a new era that actually harkens back to kind of our original foreign policy playbook in the early days of our founding republic that said, listen, I

And yes, we have formed our republic to get away from the ills of the old world.

And we don't want to get sucked into old world conflicts.

But at the same time, we recognize we must stand up for ourselves.

And the earliest conflicts we fought as Americans were the Barbary Wars of the Mediterranean, where we saw that our commerce was threatened.

Our sailors were being impressed.

And we said, you know what?

We're going to take targeted action.

And as a young nation in 1798 through 1805, you know, we took targeted action very much like this, where we went into specific locations from Tripoli to Morocco, from Gibraltar, all through that region to protect our citizens and our national interest.

And that's what this comes back to, Ben, as you well know, as Marco Rubio, who's done an amazing job

I mean, those of us who've known Marco, of course, have known this all along, but the rest of the nation is now finally seeing just what a genius this guy is and how lucky we are to have him at the top of our foreign policy construct, because what we're seeing is actions being taken for our national interest.

And believe it or not, Ben, that's the job of our government is to do things that are good for America and good for Americans.

And this was good for America.

It was good for the American people.

And frankly, it was good for the world.

So I think you're absolutely right.

This phase of foreign policy we're seeing is a targeted campaign of specific actions that have limited scope, but have very intentional outcomes.