Today, Beto was interviewed on NPR’s “1A.” Beto discussed a variety of topics over the nearly 30 minute interview, including the President’s recent actions in Syria. Beto detailed how his time on the House Veterans Affairs and House Arms Services Committees shaped his foreign policy view:

"In my six years in Congress, working on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, I've seen the cost and consequence of war. These brave women and men coming back to this country with the signature wounds and conditions of service and battle and combat - post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma - a country that was all too ready to send them into harm's way but has been incapable of taking care of them when they come back. It's another reason that I've come to the conclusion that we should stop going to war everywhere around the world to achieve our foreign policy aims. There has to be a better way to do it” Beto said.

“But I also served on the House Arms Services Committee and understand that as we spend about 750 billion dollars a year, more than the next 9 military budgets around the world combined and added up, we're not achieving our foreign policy aims at the same time that we're draining the treasure of this country. And putting women and men into harm's way without a definition of victory or commonly understood strategy or any end to these wars in sight. So I'm going to make sure that we use the power of this county to inspire, to convene, to pursue our common goals with other countries on this planet --- without using 18, 19, or 20 year old women and men to pursue this through military action.”

The full interview can be heard HERE. Beto's policy plan to improve veterans services is available HERE.