The race for the Republican presidential nomination has become a foreign policy and national security debate, and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is using the opportunity to show how his foreign policy compares to that of President Obama.
Monday evening on FOX News‘ The Kelly File, Rubio spoke with stand-in host Shannon Bream about the distinct differences between the two policies. He said:
“The State Department is a disaster, and Barack Obama is a disaster, especially when it comes to ISIS. He has no strategy. All they care about is spinning the American public with all these sorts of political talking points.”
The Obama administration is too focused on domestic politics, he added, which is compounding the problem. Rather than focusing on solving the problem, he said, the administration is too busy deciding what the “narrative” will be.
“That’s the kind of thing you hear in a political campaign, not a national security debate,” he told Bream.
Rubio said ISIS wants to kill America by infiltrating the country to conduct more attacks like those that took place in Paris and San Bernardino, California. He said ISIS also wants to capture more territory in the Middle East.
“This disastrous president we have is more focused on the narrative as if it is some sort of campaign commercial,” he said. “This is not a laughing matter. This is a very serious issue, a life or death issue. Because either these terrorists win or we win. I know what the outcome I want (is), and that’s one of the reasons I am running for president.”
Rubio said that Obama needs to admit to Americans that, up to now, his strategy hasn’t worked well and then “outline clearly” what will be done going forward. Instead, however, the president has stuck with his strategy, and attempted to convince the public it was working.
“How can the American people have confidence that this president knows what he is doing on terrorism when he believes the greatest threat before the country and the world is global warming?” Rubio asked. “These terrorists are killing people and he spends all his time talking about things like global warming and cutting our military. So if he wants to turn those poll numbers around, about people having confidence in our success against terror, start having success against terror and be serious about it.”
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