On foreign policy, the GOP candidates are ‘all over the map’

  • 9 years ago
Donald Trump is "100 percent" in favor of Vladi­mir Putin demolishing the Islamic State terror group.
Jeb Bush thinks he's "absolutely wrong."
Marco Rubio has written off Rand Paul as a "committed isolationist," while Ted Cruz positions himself in the ideal "middle ground" between them.
Welcome to the Republican Party's foreign policy muddle.
While the GOP is relishing a chance to vigorously prosecute what it has disparagingly dubbed the "Obama-Clinton foreign policy legacy" in the general election, it first must resolve its own identity crisis, as evident in the fourth Republican debate Tuesday night.
An eclectic cast of White House hopefuls sharing a stage in Milwaukee were in discord over Russia, Syria, Islamic terrorism and military spending.

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