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GOP Golden Boy Gives the Most Hawkish Foreign Policy Speech Since Woodrow Wilson
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Apr 26, 2012 09:32am |
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| Author | Michael Brendan Dougherty |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 05:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Currently Florida Senator Marco Rubio is giving a major foreign policy speech at the Brookings Institution.
And it is being closely watched because Rubio has been campaigning with Mitt Romney and is at the top of the list for potential vice-presidents.
Unfortunately, his speech may be the most hawkish piece of American political rhetoric since Woodrow Wilson's barn-burners leading up to World War I.
Just consider this one paragraph:
I always start by reminding people that what happens all over the world is our business. Every aspect of [our] lives is directly impacted by global events. The security of our cities is connected to the security of small hamlets in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Our cost of living, the safety of our food , and the value of the things we invent, make and sell are just a few examples of everyday aspects of our lives that are direcly related to events abroad and make it impossible for us to focus only on our issues here are home.
This is a prescription for endless war.
It is also patently untrue.
Not even the Soviets could bring peace to all the small hamlets of Afghanistan, and we haven't been able to do it either, despite being vastly more sophisticated, wealthier, and spending much longer in that nation. If our security depends on the safety of villages in Pakistan, a basket-case nation in Asia that has received an enormous amount of American aid and protection since World War II, we can never consider ourselves safe.
Imagine that you were told you could never really expect a good meal to be on the table at night, unless and until the United States federal government ended world hunger. It would be ridiculous demagoguery. No one would believe it. Rubio's ideas about security are no less ridiculous, although they are much more dangerous. |
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