Posted on 02/19/2016 4:17:52 PM PST by JSDude1
On the campaign trail, Senator Marco Rubio has been pushing a media narrative that he is the most “serious†foreign policy candidate. It’s an odd position since he missed all but one of the 19 votes connected to the National Defense Authorization Act last year! But far more damaging than his missed votes is his inability to learn from our past national security mistakes. Whether it’s Libya, border security, or major security gaps in our visa and refugee programs, when he has voted, it’s often on the side of misplaced liberal ideals and illegal immigrants instead of America’s One disturbing example is Rubio’s support for the Obama-Clinton intervention in Libya in 2011. As a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, I traveled to Sigonella Navy base to meet with our military commanders who were conducting our military intervention. Our briefings were shocking. It was clear we had no end game or definition of success. That is to say the decisions and confused strategy was the product of Obama’s misunderstanding of the middle east. Yet in a speech at the Brookings Institution in 2012, after complaining that Republicans were so bad on foreign policy that he was forced to work on his policies with Democrats, Senator Rubio said the Libya regime change “turned out fine.†Senator Rubio had been in the Senate for two years at the time, and should have had some understanding of the conditions on the ground. In fact, our people were already being attacked in the region. In a month, Ambassador Chris Stevens would be pleading with Secretary Clinton for more security. And in less than five months, Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans would stop complaining – because they were killed in the utter disaster that was the radical Islamic
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Jack Kingston got beaten by Perdue/Herman Cain in the primary. This is another benefit of term limits & primarying RINOs.
Now Jack can try to undermine some RINOs to redeem himself.
I’ve seen the pictures of Rubio, Graham and McCain meeting with jihadists.
No one who believes there are moderate jihadists should be President.
What’s Kingston doing now? Is he going to run for the Senate again?
He lives nearby. Next time I see him, I’ll ask him.
(When ever that is) :D
It was just Perdue that beat him and it’s a shame, Kingston was the more conservative choice ‘tween the 2.
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