June 28, 2017

H.R. McMaster: Omission of Article 5 commitment from Trump speech a 'manufactured controversy'

Featuring: Michèle Flournoy

Source: The Washington Examiner

Journalist: Melissa Quinn

National security adviser H.R. McMaster said Wednesday criticism of President Trump's failure to affirm the United States' commitment to NATO's Article 5 in a speech last month was a "manufactured controversy."

"The president is absolutely committed to our treaty," McMaster said Wednesday at the Center for a New American Security's annual conference. "We are signatories of the treaty, and he said we will never abandon those who stand with us, and he was very clear in saying everything but that explicit phrase that everyone was looking for, for some really odd reason."

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Author

  • Michèle Flournoy

    Chair, CNAS Board of Directors, Co-founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

    Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), w...