69.1: World Leadership
[Lead from the front] Other Information:
The Current Administration’s Failure: Leading From Behind -- The Republican Party is the advocate for a strong national defense
as the pathway to peace, economic prosperity, and the protection of those yearning to be free. Since the end of World War
II, American military superiority has been the cornerstone of a strategy that seeks to deter aggression or defeat those who
threaten our national security interests. In 1981, President Reagan came to office with an agenda of strong American leadership,
beginning with a restoration of our country’s military strength. The rest is history, written in the rubble of the Berlin
Wall and the Iron Curtain. We face a similar challenge today. The current Administration has responded with weakness to some
of the gravest threats to our national security this country has faced, including the proliferation of transnational terrorism,
continued belligerence by a nuclear-armed North Korea, an Iran in pursuit of nuclear weapons, rising Chinese hegemony in the
Asia Pacific region, Russian activism, and threats from cyber espionage and terrorism. In response to these growing threats,
President Obama has reduced the defense budget by over $487 billion over the next decade and fought Republican efforts to
avoid another $500 billion in automatic budget cuts through a sequestration in early 2013 that will take a meat ax to all
major defense programs.
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