bob walker, former congressman of pennsylvania and supporter of john kasich. congressman walker, your guy had a nuanced point of view tonight. he said you can t win these battles with people like iran until you unite with the world. john kasich spent 18 rears on the armed services committee. he knows national security policy. he knows that you can t make these hard and fast rules 18 months before you might be in the office. he has the position that i think a presidential candidate should have, given this forum. what about the mood of the primary voters? tonight there was a lot of hawkishness out there. john calls himself a cheap hawk because he believes that we have to have a strong military police. the navy needs to be increased. he also believes there are
survival of western civilization. this is not just a little conflict with a middle eastern country. to give them this agreement that the president treats like the magna carta, but the iranians treat it like it s toilet paper. and we must simply make it very clear that the next president, one of us on this stage, will absolutely not honor that agreement and will destroy it and will be tough with iran because otherwise we put every person in this world in a dangerous place. there were a few candidates tonight in the republican debate who pushed back against the hawkish line. senator rand paul said ripping up the nuclear deal right away was wrong. should we cut up the agreement immediately? that s absurd. wouldn t you want to know if they complied? i m going to vote against the agreement because i don t think there is significant leverage. that doesn t mean i would look at the agreement and cut it up without seeing whether iran is complying. here is something important. governor joh
the president treats like the magna carta, but the iranians treat it like it s toilet paper. and we must simply make it very clear that the next president, one of us on this stage, will absolutely not honor that agreement and will destroy it and will be tough with iran because otherwise we put every person in this world in a dangerous place. there were a few candidates tonight in the republican debate who pushed back against the hawkish line. senator rand paul said ripping up the nuclear deal right away was wrong. should we cut up the agreement immediately? that s absurd. wouldn t you want to know if they complied? i m going to vote against the agreement because i don t think there is significant leverage. that doesn t mean i would look at the agreement and cut it up without seeing whether iran is complying. here is something important. governor john kasich of ohio pushed back against senator ted cruz hard line on iran. this was a real debate.
she does not have a track record of accomplishment. i too have traveled hundreds of miles around the globe. unlike mrs. clinton, i know flying is an activity, not an accomplishment. mrs. clinton, if you want to stump a democrat, ask them to name an accomplishment of mrs. clinton. what we did learn tonight about foreign policy 2016, we learned a lot. there are a lot of hawks out there. here what is we heard. get tough with putin, rip up the iran deal on day one. cancel china s state dinner coming up. carly fiorina called for sending a strong, even militaristic message to russia. having met vladimir putin, point talk to him at all. we talked too much to him. i would begin rebuilding the six fleet, the defensive program in poland, conduct regular aggressive military exercises in the baltic states.
pushed back against senator ted cruz hard line on iran. this was a real debate. i want to respond to several folks up here who said we should trust this iranian deal and see if iranians will comply. anyone paying attention knows they will not comply. i want to say what the senator just said. no one let me suggest to you, we believe we operate better in the world when our allies work with us. president bush did it in the gulf war. we work better when we are unified. secondly, nobody s trusting iran. they violate the deal, we put on the sanctions and we have the high moral ground to talk to our allies in europe to get them to go with us. we can have it and we can have our allies and we can be strong as a country and we can project across this globe with unity, not just doing it alone. that is not what gets us where we want to get as a nation.