Seeking to differentiate himself from his fellow candidates in the bar-top bowl of nuts that is the Republican primary, Sen. Marco Rubio is positioning himself as the candidate for grumpy neoconservatives whose only issue with America's latest crop of wars is that there haven't been enough of them. Toward this end, he has sought to surround himself with advisers that include
Elliott Abrams, Robert Kagan, and other purveyors of the worst ideas in modern history. Whether he is doing this as a dare or because Dick Cheney is holding one of his family pets hostage is unclear.
All right, so he's been boning up on foreign policy for a while now. Let's see what he's come up with.
Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio will describe what his foreign-policy "doctrine" would be if he wins the White House, according to advance excerpts of the speech he will deliver Wednesday afternoon to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. [...]
He says the doctrine consists of three pillars -- 1) American strength through "adequately" funding the U.S. military;
Well there's a bold stance. I can't remember the last time a Republican candidate was willing to stand up and demand that the military be funded "adequately."
2) using U.S. power "to oppose any violations of international waters, airspace, cyberspace, our outer space";
Sounds super. And so sharply specific you could cut yourself on it!
and 3) supporting "the spread of economic and political freedom" across the globe.
All right, so we've got (1) spend money (2) patrol the high seas and (3) Freedom Bombing. Well that'll sure make him stand out. Not sure how the other candidates can compete with a foreign policy mind like
that.