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Patriot Voices
Santorum
Outlines Foreign Policy Against Radical Islamic Threats
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and
Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum addressed several thousand
Liberty University students yesterday focusing on the mounting clash
between the Western Civilized World and the growing threat of radical
Islamists.
In his speech, Santorum specifically described his work in 2005 and
2006 to draw attention to the threat posed by an Iranian government
looking to develop a nuclear weapon. He pointed to his work in
authoring the Iran Freedom and Support Act, which was opposed by both
President Bush and then-Senator Obama, but eventually passed with wide
bipartisan support. Of specific note, Santorum recalled
successfully urging President Bush to accurately describe the enemy, to
see the President do so on one occasion, but then have his
hyper-politically correct State Department stop President Bush from
ever doing so again.
On the failure to accurately address Radical Islam:
"By not correctly identifying these Islamists for who they are, they've
given all Muslims a pass for identifying a cancer within their own
body. We don't help them treat that illness when we refuse to
identify that their body is sick."
On America's historic role in the World:
"We stood and confronted evil. We confronted evil in our own
country because of people of faith motivating us to combat those
injustices, and we had the courage to combat evil around the world
because we were not afraid to call evil 'evil.' We were not afraid to
make that judgment because we saw it clearly through the eyes of faith."
On the importance of maintaining a strong military
"I believe in limited government, but I do not believe in small
government in the areas where government is the only one to do the job.
In the case of national security, we need a robust and strong
military."
Santorum went on to say that "no piece of paper" would stop a country
from developing a nuclear weapon.
Santorum concluded his speech by urged the students to "do something"
to stand up for the values that separate the United States from those
who pose an existential threat to the freedoms Americans freely
exercise.
Senator Santorum was a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
for 8 years, working to help transform the United States military from
a Cold War fighting force to one prepared to deal with current day
threats. Santorum is the principal author of the Syria
Accountability Act and the Iran Freedom and Support Act that imposed
strict sanctions on these rogue regimes. After leaving the
Senate, Santorum led the Program to Protect America's Freedom at the
Ethics and Public Policy Center, where his work focused on drawing
attention to international threats to American security.
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