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I read what you say Karnal but what about this from the Washington Examiner?
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a leading 2016 GOP presidential contender, on Wednesday ripped President Obama’s military spending and troop cuts, charging that he has “failed the first test of leadership as commander-in-chief.”
In a forceful speech during which he called for increased spending on key weaponry and a new vision for U.S. military power, Rubio said that the president’s budgetary withering of the Pentagon over six years “borders on the frightening.”
Speaking to veterans and military policy experts in Washington, Rubio presented a plan to revive the military’s doctrine with three key objectives:
• Don't sit back. Be first to repel U.S. and global enemies like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. “Conflict breeds economic disruption,” he said.
• Fight for world freedom, as former President Ronald Reagan did in taking on communism. “It means being unabashed in our support for the spread of economic and political freedom.”
BY PAUL BEDARD | 11/14/14 9:35 AM
Some 92 million Americans have dropped out of the labor force, and nearly all don't want a job.
Legacy: Messina calls Obama 'transformative' and 'one of the all-time great presidents'
BY PAUL BEDARD | 11/14/14 8:21 AM
Report: Obama urged to get more nukes, stop acting like war is 'unthinkable'
BY PAUL BEDARD | 11/13/14 5:04 PM
A report urges President Obama to expand the U.S. nuclear arsenal amid Russian threats. • Bolster defense spending. “We need American strength,” he said. “The world is at its safest when America is at its strongest.”
Rubio was harsh on Obama in speaking to three groups hosting his address, The Project for the Common Defense, the John Hay Initiative, and Concerned Veterans for America.
“Previous presidents have merely taken their foot off the gas pedal of American strength,” he said after making an earlier reference to former President Bill Clinton. “But President Obama has stomped the brake,” said Rubio.
He charged that Obama has cut spending, allowed sequestration to cut even deeper and the result has been a drawdown of troops to near World War II levels.
“Our force reductions have been felt throughout the world, by our friends and our enemies. They have presented not just a crisis of readiness for America, but also a perilous strategic weakness,” said Rubio.
The senator, who sits on the foreign relations and intelligence committees, showed his hand on what he would do as commander-in-chief writing the Pentagon budget.
Rubio said that the country should focus spending on “modernization and innovation.” He would build more ships to project force, push harder for production of the Air Force F-35, hire more troops, expand intelligence capabilities, and raise benefit standards for the military.
“America cannot avoid its role as global leader,” he concluded. “No other nation can be trusted to defend peace and advance liberty.” Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com
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