Rick Santorum on Foreign Policy

South Carolina Debate

In May of 2011, Senator Santorum participated in the Republican Primary in South Carolina. He is asked about foreign policy and states that all the successful policies purused by President Obama in foreign affairs were continuations of Bush policies.

 

Reagan Debate

In September of 2011, Senator Santorum participated in the Republican debate at the Reagan library. He discusses Libya in the overall context of foreign policy.

WILLIAMS: Senator Santorum, your reaction to Congresswoman Bachmann's stand on what we're watching take place in Libya right up until tonight.

SANTORUM: Well, we're in the Reagan Library, and I'm hearing from at least a couple of people on this panel a very isolationist view of where the Republican Party should be headed about pulling troops out with Governor Huntsman and with Ron Paul.

The bottom line is, Ronald Reagan was committed to America being a force for good around the world. We were a society that believed in ourselves and believed that we can spread our vision to the rest of the world and make this country a safer country as a result of it.

We didn't have missions where we put exit strategies saying this date is when we're going to leave. We didn't say that we are the problem and the cause of the problems that confront us around the world.

We were -- we are a source for good. We could have been a source for good from the very get-go in Libya, but this president was indecisive and confused from the very beginning. He only went along with the Libyan mission because the United Nations told him to, which is something that Ronald Reagan would have melted like the old Wicked Witch of the West before he would have allowed that to happen.

 

Sponsored and Cosponsored Legislation

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