Polls show the majority of Republicans are sick of Wilsonian style nation building. Our country is in an economic morass. Wages are stagnating and our debt is out of control. Clearly we need a cautious foreign policy and if we fight, it needs to be quick and decisive. Tim Pawlenty doesn’t get it. He is advocating More nation building and useless interventionism.
GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty will deliver a major address on foreign policy on Tuesday in what his top aides are billing as a rebuttal to what they see as President Barack Obama’s flawed May 19 speech on the Middle East.
All the Republican presidential candidates are being forced to sharpen their foreign policy chops as the primary race heats up, but Pawlenty has been vocal on several key foreign policy issues for some time. His campaign may for now be light on foreign policy infrastructure, but it’s heavy on policy positions and ideas, several of which he plans to lay out tomorrow morning when he addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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On specific issues such as the president’s approach to Israel, U.S. policy toward Iran, or U.S.-Russia relations, Pawlenty often shares the views of leading GOP hawks in the Senate such as Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT). But Pawlenty doesn’t want to be identified as a neoconservative, and doesn’t want his views to be tied to those senators in particular.
“I wish you could think of another way to describe this wing of the party, other than McCain and Lindsey Graham. I love John, but that’s like saying we’re embracing Nelson Rockefeller on economics,” Pawlenty joked during his interview with Bloomberg News.
Pawlenty is embracing the Rockefeller/Interventionist wing on foreign policy. Bush’s freedom agenda was a failure and cost this nation resources and treasure. It’s time to end Wilsonianism which is a Progressive concept, not a Conservative one. Tim Pawlenty is not a Conservative and will get more Americans killed in useless nation building projects. We must defeat him in the GOP primaries.
Tags: 2012 GOP Nomination, Tim Pawlenty
