We need to add a third “P” to the TPP.

As the American military is stretched by repeated deployments to hot wars in the Middle East and to preventing a new cold war in Eastern Europe, it is critically important that the Asia-Pacific region remains a region of peace. That is exactly what a new trade agreement, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, will do. In fact, this agreement will be so powerful in buttressing America’s national security that we should call it the “Trans-Pacific Partnership for Peace.”