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What Follows a ‘Sayonara’ Foreign Policy

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Posted: July 3rd, 2020

By John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin is the Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).  He served as both Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. McLaughlin served as a U.S. Army Officer in the 1960s, with service in Vietnam.

Cipher Brief Expert and former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin is a distinguished practitioner in residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.  He served as the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2000-2004 and Acting Director of the CIA in 2004.

OPINION — Attending the annual international security conference in Munich, Germany, early this year, I heard Trump administration officials tell a skeptical audience that the United States was still “leading” the world.  A European official turned to me and said: “They should substitute ‘v’ for ‘d’ because it feels more often like this administration is leaving the world.”

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