Sen. [crscore]Marco Rubio[/crscore] lashed out at fellow Republican presidential candidate during Tuesday’s CNN moderated debate by claiming that the United States is “the most powerful nation in the world,” and that “we need to begin acting like it again.”
In regards to Rubio’s foreign policy, Cruz had just stated that “we need to focus on killing the bad guys, not getting stuck in Middle Eastern civil wars that don’t keep America safe,” eliciting the following response from Rubio:
RUBIO: Three points of distinction. The first is, if you’re an American citizen and you decide to join up with isis, we’re not going to read you your Mirranda Rights… Number two, we do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator Cruz would have supported would have left us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with. And the final point I would make is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it again.