The chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee is preparing to brief the next potential president on all things foreign policy.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., recently spoke to Washington Examiner’s “Examining Politics” podcast and said that one of his biggest suggestions is to work with NATO.
“You need to put on the table all of the problems with sitting down with our closest allies, specifically with NATO,” Nunes said. “So when you’re dealing with ISIS and al Qaeda, you’re dealing with the Russia problem … the NATO group can help with that.”
Some of the biggest concerns facing Nunes and the intelligence community are the Islamic State and al Qaeda, and the people who have left the United States or Europe to go train in Syria. Nunes said at least 5,000 people have made that journey, but that the number could be up to five times as many.
Nunes suggests an Arab military that promotes peace and increasing the number of NATO troops as a way to combat threats from the Islamic State.
When it comes to other national security and foreign policy concerns, the congressman from California said China and Russia are on equal footing. He said the United States as a country is in a state of denial to believe that the Russians are going to oust Bashar Assad as president of Syria.
“Whenever we play footsies with these rogue regimes, we always come out the loser,” Nunes said.
