HUFFPOST / AOL: Jon Huntsman may be stepping into the shoes of Haley Barbour and Mike Huckabee, becoming a top-tier candidate skeptical of current U.S. foreign policy and calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
“In terms of foreign policy, we have a generational opportunity, George, to reset our position in the world,” Huntsman said in an interview with George Stephanopoulos that aired Friday on “Good Morning America.” “And it must be done based upon our deployments in all corners of the world, wherever we find ourselves, how affordable those deployments are, whether it’s a good use of our young men and women. Whether it’s in our core national security and interest. We’re fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It’s a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.”…
“I would tell you that we have to evaluate very carefully our presence in Afghanistan,” he said. “And my inclination would be to say that it is a heavy and very expensive presence we have on the ground. That at a point in time where we need to be looking at our asymmetrical threats, what we have in Afghanistan today is not consistent with how we ought to be responding.” … (more)
EDITOR: A distinguished Republican candidate and a worthy opponent to President Obama in the 2012 election, Huntsman is written off as not having a chance of winning the primaries. How sad.
