NEWSLINK New York Times: “Donald Trump’s New York Times Interview: Full Transcript”

“… What do you see as America’s role in the world? Do you believe that the role …
TRUMP: That’s such a big question.

FRIEDMAN: The role that we played for 50 years as kind of the global balancer, paying more for things because they were in our ultimate interest, one hears from you, I sense, is really shrinking that role.

TRUMP: I don’t think we should be a nation builder. I think we’ve tried that. I happen to think that going into Iraq was perhaps … I mean you could say maybe we could have settled the civil war, O.K.? I think going into Iraq was one of the great mistakes in the history of our country. I think getting out of it – I think we got out of it wrong, then lots of bad things happened, including the formation of ISIS. We could have gotten out of it differently.