Rubio’s approach to
world affairs essentially repeats the “let’s have it all and who cares
if it adds up” mentality of his fiscal policy. His solution to every
problem is to confront some foreign country more aggressively, with no
regard to the idea of trade-offs or tensions between goals or limits to
how much the United States can bite off at any particular time.
He’d start things off by alienating Latin American allies by undoing the Obama administration’s normalization of relations with Cuba in order to return to a decades-long failed policy of isolation.
But that’s small potatoes compared with the consequences of Rubio’s pledge to cancel the nuclear deal with Iran on day one. He isn’t too worried that this will lead to Iran building a nuclear weapon because there will be a “credible threat of military force if Iran decides to ramp up its program.” He also wants to deploy more American troops to Syria and Iraq to fight ISIS.
He wants to attack ships and aircraft bound for North Korea that are “suspected of carrying material related to North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.” He is also hoping to convince China to help with the Korea situation, but his China policy calls for tougher measures to “stand on the side of freedom and human rights, both inside China and on its periphery.”
He also wants to send more weapons to Ukraine, increase sanctions on Russia, move more heavy weapons into Eastern Europe, and clarify “that there will be no U.S.-Russia cooperation in the fight against ISIL until Russia brokers the departure of Bashar al-Assad from power.”
We really did have a president who tried to govern this way for a year or two. His name was George W. Bush
He’d start things off by alienating Latin American allies by undoing the Obama administration’s normalization of relations with Cuba in order to return to a decades-long failed policy of isolation.
But that’s small potatoes compared with the consequences of Rubio’s pledge to cancel the nuclear deal with Iran on day one. He isn’t too worried that this will lead to Iran building a nuclear weapon because there will be a “credible threat of military force if Iran decides to ramp up its program.” He also wants to deploy more American troops to Syria and Iraq to fight ISIS.
He wants to attack ships and aircraft bound for North Korea that are “suspected of carrying material related to North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.” He is also hoping to convince China to help with the Korea situation, but his China policy calls for tougher measures to “stand on the side of freedom and human rights, both inside China and on its periphery.”
He also wants to send more weapons to Ukraine, increase sanctions on Russia, move more heavy weapons into Eastern Europe, and clarify “that there will be no U.S.-Russia cooperation in the fight against ISIL until Russia brokers the departure of Bashar al-Assad from power.”
We really did have a president who tried to govern this way for a year or two. His name was George W. Bush
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