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National Review’s Bob Costa interviews Marco Rubio, and discovers that the Florida Tea Party senator is conciously a foreign policy hawk, trying to follow in the late Jesse Helms’s foosteps.
“It is so important that conservatism does not translate into isolationism,” Rubio asserts. “Isolationism has never worked for America. It is not going to work in the 21st century.”
“That doesn’t mean confrontation for the sake of confrontation; that doesn’t mean we go around and settle every dispute in the world,” Rubio says. “But if America is engaged, we have influence, and if we have influence, we can help determine the outcome. We cannot guarantee outcomes, but we can help determine them in a way that is positive for the world.”
Rubio also lists his recent reading: former Bush speechwriter Mark Thiessen’s Courting Disaster, Power, Faith, and Fantasy by former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, and Bush’s Decision Points. Sadly, Rubio claims to read no fiction.
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OLDRAY| 4.20.11 @ 10:46AM
Put fear into the Democrats, shake up the Rhinos. Run Sarah Palin and Marco Rubio in 1912 and you'll have a landslide Republican victory. We need a revolutionary conservative young Republican Party to save this nation.
OLDRAY| 4.20.11 @ 10:48AM
SORRY ,I meant 2012 ..Blame the error on old age (it's handy).
JimH| 4.20.11 @ 11:07AM
I think young Marco is playing to some of his Miami constituency. If he was so Gung Ho he should have enlisted.
jppc| 4.20.11 @ 11:56AM
Rubio, as a latino, like most latinos, is OBSESSED with "migration" - the supposed God-given "right" of every latino to migrate to the USA.
Back to Cuba, Marco. Is that soo mean for you Jorge Booosh, open borders neocons?
Boo-boo, I'm so upset.
Ammo Guy| 4.20.11 @ 12:45PM
"Sadly, Rubio claims to read no fiction." Hmmm, I would assert that anything he reads coming from the Executive Branch would qualify as fiction.
Wayne | 4.20.11 @ 1:08PM
Rubio just lost me.
carol| 4.20.11 @ 1:45PM
I bacame a hawk after 9/11
doesn't sound like a hawk to me
but I have been to afganistan and nation building are you kidding..we have david and and the giant there.
do not lose focus morality and protection simple and fight to win
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.20.11 @ 1:50PM
If Rubio reads the Washington Post, he's been reading fiction for sure.
Kyle| 4.20.11 @ 2:34PM
Hmmm. I don't like what I've been reading about Rubio lately.
Occam's Tool| 4.20.11 @ 6:34PM
Nothing wrong with Jesse Helms' foreign policy.
C Bowen| 4.20.11 @ 8:06PM
Rubio still thinks Iraq was a threat.
Pour Mr. Helms is turning over.
Brooke| 4.21.11 @ 2:01AM
Interventionism is bankrupting us and too many of our young Americans are dying for people who don't deserve either. Do we even know why we're over there? I sure don't.
God bless our military.
Bigmo| 4.26.11 @ 8:35AM
You know all these wars and stuff against Arabs. A pr0-immigration war hawk is probably the only GOP ticket you will find now. People who have no issues with America fighting Arabs but want them to migrate to America anyways.