Former vice president Cheney challenges Pence on Trump’s foreign policy
By Robert Costa and Robert Costa National political reporter covering the White House, Congress and campaigns Email Bio Follow Ashley Parker Ashley Parker White House reporter Email Bio Follow March 11 at 5:01 PM A chummy discussion between Vice President Pence and former vice president Richard B.
Cheney’s questions for Pence — which prompted Pence to joke about the lack of “softball” topics — provide a revealing glimpse into the churning and often strained debates inside the Republican Party, where longtime GOP hawks such as Cheney have increasingly balked at Trump’s engagement with autocrats and his noninterventionist approach to U.S. military efforts in the Middle East.
The conversation between Pence and Cheney, which was led by the former vice president, took place at AEI’s annual world forum, which was attended by many the conservative think tank’s donors and supporters — many of whom also are major Republican financiers. AEI has long been linked to members of the GOP’s foreign-policy establishment, from Cheney to national security adviser John Bolton, who was a fellow there before joining the administration.
“We’re going to continue [to] train,” Pence said. “We’re going to continue to work closely with South Korea. We have a tremendous alliance there.” “Well, who wrote these softball questions?” Pence joked, a nod to the unexpected — and tough — tenor of Cheney’s line of query. Cheney was dubious about that commitment. He worried aloud, again and again, that for Trump, the former businessman-turned-president, foreign policy boils down to a crude dollars and cents transaction. Noting that NATO countries have provided their own troops to fight alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan, he said, “So it’s a lot more than just the checkbook.”
Pence again defended the administration, articulating Trump’s noninterventionist approach to foreign policy. On the decision to withdraw troops from Syria, for instance, Pence disputed the notion Trump made the move over the course of a single phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but said that Trump supporters have long known he was skeptical about ongoing military conflagrations involving U.S. troops.
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