Sen. Marco Rubio argued President Obama‘s foreign policy is isolationist, joining a growing list of Republican presidential hopefuls hoping to land a punch over current problems overseas.
If Obama waits on other government’s to join the U.S. in its attack on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, it “could lead to the continuation of what has been the most disengaged presidential foreign policy in modern American history,” the Florida Republican wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Friday.
Rubio, a viable candidate for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, wonders if Obama will “rise to the occasion and truly reassert American leadership.”
A continuation of doing what Rubio calls “choosing detachment” will only lead to “more violence, rivals and partners alike taking advantage of our inaction, and a steady increase in threats to our citizens and to our prosperity.”
“Every American should know that the price of further disengagement now would be greater sacrifice later,” Rubio writes.
In recent weeks, 2016 hopefuls Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul have increasingly ramped up discussion of foreign policy, criticizing President Obama in op-eds and speeches.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls has Rubio behind New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Paul, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Perry among potential Republican presidential nominees.
