“When he was a candidate, he laid out a thoughtful vision on national security and foreign policy,” Fly told The Daily Caller.
“Unbeknownst to many people, he developed extensive foreign policy experience as Governor and given his close relationship with Gov. Romney, he’d be an effective envoy for the administration and a great representative of the American people abroad.”
Pawlenty traveled extensively overseas while governor of Minnesota, leading trade missions to Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, China, India, Israel, Brazil, Chile and Japan.
He has also visited American troops in Iraq five times, in Afghanistan three times and in the Balkans on multiple occasions. After leaving the governor’s mansion in 2011, he led a delegation from the International Republican Institute to observe Tunisia’s elections.
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