TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republicans delivered a scathing indictment of President Barack Obama’s national security policy, although the Democrat’s aggressive approach has often been compared to that of his GOP predecessor, George W. Bush.
Defense and foreign policy, largely footnotes during the first two days of the Republican convention, were at the core of speeches by Sen. John McCain, Obama’s presidential rival in 2008, and Condoleezza Rice, Bush’s secretary of state. Neither uttered Obama’s name Wednesday night in their prime-time remarks, but the target of their criticism was clear.
“For four years, we’ve drifted away from our proudest traditions of global leadership,” McCain said. “We’ve let the challenges we face, both at home and abroad, become harder to solve.”
He faulted Obama for projected cuts to defense spending, a timetable for withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan and an unwillingness to use more U.S. military force to stop the months of bloodshed in Syria. McCain drew the loudest applause when he criticized the government over suspected national security leaks.
Rice acknowledged the nation’s weariness from the two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that Bush started but said: “If we are not inspired to lead again, one of two things will happen: No one will lead and that will foster chaos, or others who do not share our values will fill the vacuum. … We do not have a choice. We cannot be reluctant to lead — and one cannot lead from behind.”
Read More at OfficialWire. By Donna Cassata.
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Obuma’s foreign policy consists of apologizing for the greatness of America, especialy to those who hate us. He and his wife have made it plain they hate everything about the America most of us have known all our lives. They hate the free-market economic system. The hate the right to speak freely, assemble openly, worship as Christians or Jews, own and bear arms, vote in an open election, start a business and run it as you see fit, and every other right promised by our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Obuma hates free-enterprise, except for himself and his cronies. He wants America to be militarily weak. He is anti-American. Is it any wonder good, loyal Americans don’t approve of this anti-American lover of Marx?