2016 CT Senate race: on Foreign Policy


Dan Carter: Policy of stupefied bystander erodes America's stature

The current Obama/Blumenthal foreign policy has eroded America's effectiveness abroad, reduced our stature as a military power and caused our most loyal and steadfast allies to doubt our resolve. One of the worst foreign policy decisions in modern American history, which Dick Blumenthal supported and championed, allows the terrorist state of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons that pose an immediate and ever growing threat to the Middle East and, more importantly, to the very existence of Israel. The Obama/Blumenthal foreign policy approach has been a stupefied bystander as North Korea continually launches ICBM missiles, the latest off a submarine platform, all of which have the capability of hitting American targets, while at the same time being a major world arms dealer to the very terrorist who attack Americans and American cities. We must do more to protect our interests along the Korean peninsula.
Source: 2016 Connecticut Senate campaign website CarterForSenate.com Aug 8, 2016

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