Subject: DNC Memo: The GOP’s Recklessly Outdated Foreign Policy, Brought To You by Walker & Rubio This Morning
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To: DNC Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:07:02 +0000

To:                 Interested Parties
From:            Holly Shulman, DNC National Press Secretary
Date:             August 28, 2015
Subject:        The GOP’s Recklessly Outdated Foreign Policy, Brought To You by Walker & Rubio This Morning

In Charleston today, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio will outline their failed, out of touch foreign policies that are rooted in the past. As Democrats are progressing towards a safer, secure and more diplomatic world, Americans can expect to see plenty of the same reckless rhetoric that will only endanger America and our allies while dismantling our relationships around the world.

RUBIO’S COLD WAR AGENDA WITH CHINA

When Rubio is not embarrassing himself with his multitude of foreign<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/24/rubios-claim-that-obama-would-not-comment-on-irans-green-revolution/> policy<http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/may/05/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-says-united-states-isnt-building-aircr/> gaffes<http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/foreign-policy-once-again-trips-rubio> and<http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/may/05/marco-rubio/marco-rubio-says-united-states-not-modernizing-its/> inaccurate claims<http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/feb/19/marco-rubio/isis-holds-sway-benghazi-rubio-says/>, he’s strongly embracing an outdated foreign policy view of the world rooted as far back as the 1960s. His position on US relations with Cuba makes him look like he’s still living during the Cold War<http://sendgrid.dnc.org/wf/click?upn=LRCEH9efIj9DkcP7c0H0-2BBQv4kVsfpAkVTLxDZJN0eYUxryaRThdQ9Jsl-2BE50mX5Iy-2FTXtgs-2FvXUOI5NnfTOOZmeOO4EPZyv9Z2NL-2B0yNZo-3D_-2B8cqGuFyv78-2Fv2f50sATyKGFVz7pUhSHuutUtxEEJfjpQQPLcu6pFS4Mqf63DUC1Ra34EHNoWpeF0M6PREGhsRz6Wv8BEuMB8pCkN8MEWOsQgBd9DeMWaj0cJtKdYE5e-2Fz09rFFUTcxREpWpWh5ETQEmE1kf62CEyEWCCh-2BQ1gXNP1toB17vDM6abAQIeK13h5gSBjzwo5-2B2lYft9cNfOPuS0o7-2BK2WTceYLxrNfT2s-3D>. He has said he believes we are better off for having gone to war in Iraq and promised he would revoke the agreement being negotiated<http://sendgrid.dnc.org/wf/click?upn=LRCEH9efIj9DkcP7c0H0-2BF-2Bxc8AOtht9V08rwdWplsw6-2FxVPrpvxgb04E57nxSy3ZFR3sc-2FNRSe9OoqMZ0y4ptCe0J40Cr4j9pG1AyePYAsMdRY09sXY8XUwlUxeOyXG_W77bTy6YRdHySgTK0Dy8RX9yVqAj738BIjuZGseQ-2FjPJCNi6ZTpuy4wSP2XVQ0Bay3T02wi-2F9O000-2FnRdFs47K0Ew9N7RyWMm1BrZFr7THnUa2f97qTv2Wa-2F5SxizhQ8i6xvysZDviJw52XXZIlJfjaUvz4dkDxe9V-2FDeAMBux1mXlJq17r3welSnFr82sS69iIdZrdWLUQZ8kP1jAUStoMMWOj-2BW4LJXXAMJZiqVrM-3D> to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Rubio is quick to criticize American weaknesses -- from nuclear negotiations, to relationships with Russia and China – but fails to present tangible alternatives, and he continues to pick fights with old enemies, and won’t stop pushing threats on war with Iran and others.

SCOTT WALKER’S BACKWARDS FOREIGN POLICY

And in his classic, reckless style, Walker wouldn’t rule out a “full-blown” re-invasion of Iraq and Syria. But the reckless talk doesn’t stop there – Walker doubled down<http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/08/26/walker-talks-tough-on-china-while-campaigning-in-iowa> this week on his blows against China, despite previously boasting about his 2013 meeting with the Chinese president and saying that healthy dialogue was key to sustaining a good economic relationship between our countries.

Lastly, Republicans endorse policies that would hurt America’s veterans in their transition into civilian life. Instead of offering real solutions to protect our veterans, Republicans like Governor Walker and Senator Rubio want to privatize veterans’ benefits, and they oppose raising the minimum wage, which would increase the earnings of over 1 million veterans and military families nationwide<http://www.epi.org/blog/raising-minimum-wage-benefits-million-veterans/>.

BOTTOM LINE

Rubio and Walker’s foreign policy prescriptions are barely based in this century, never mind a new one ahead. What we will see these candidates proposing today will be nothing new – they will be peddling a tired Republican playbook that is outdated and has already failed.