By southernavenger
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough delivered a great keynote speech on Thursday outlining a genuinely conservative foreign policy during the CATO Institute conference, “Escalate or Withdraw? Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan.” Here’s the description:
“During his speech, Scarborough took on neo-conservatives, Obama’s foreign policy record since taking office, and why the United States is still at war.
‘In 2010, there’s not much difference between the Republicans’ view on foreign policy and the Democrats’ view of foreign policy,” said Scarborough. “President Obama… this anti-war president, has doubled the number of troops to Afghanistan to nearly 100,000… and he’s continued the transformation of the Afghanistan effort from a counterterrorism mission to a nation-building mission.”
Says Scarborough:
“those who are still arguing in 2010 that we can somehow export democracy across the globe or rebuild other countries on the other side of the world in our image, these are the people that we have to call out today, tomorrow and everyday as the dangerous radicals that they are, history has proven them and their worldview to be dangerous and radical.”
You can listen to the podcast here.