Jeb Bush on Beefing Up Military
Jeb Bush-league To Pitch Military Buildup In Wake Of Paris Attacks
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush cites the Paris terror attacks as a reason for wide military build upward.
The former state governor says U.S. war machine have been left sick-prepared to defeat the Islamic Land, which is blamed for the Paris attacks that killed at least 129 and wounded hundreds more.
"The cruel savagery is a reminder of what is at pale in this election," Bush says in excerpts of a speech he plans to deliver Wednesday at The Military College of S Carolina, known as The Citadel.
Bush plans to pitch himself as a potential commander in chief able to handle such challenges, as his presidential bid tries to gain traction in a chief campaign likely to be shaken up afterward the Paris attacks.
"Nosotros are choosing the leader of the free world," he said, co-ordinate to passages released in advance of his address. "And if these attacks remind us of annihilation, information technology's that nosotros are living in serious times that crave serious leadership."
The speech, which had been scheduled before Friday's deadly attacks, initially was to be more focused on Pentagon policy and equipment procurement reform. Just the attacks prompted a quick shift in focus.
Bush hinted at the themes while candidature Tuesday in South Carolina, where many Republican primary voters are retired and active-duty armed services, and where support runs high for the U.S. armed services.
Bush-league has long faulted President Barack Obama's assistants, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — the leading Democratic presidential candidate — for allowing wholesale federal spending cuts prompted by the 2013 budget reconciliation after Congress and the president were unable to craft more than strategic cuts.
The cuts affected war machine and not-military machine spending alike, at a time when conflicts in Syria and Iraq "spiraled out of command as President Obama and Hillary Clinton failed to act," Bush-league said.
Bush's campaign Tuesday released a broad outline of his proposal, to restore the cuts and set goals to build upwardly the military in several areas.
Many echoed points he has made over the past half-dozen months equally a candidate, such as providing military training and support for allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltic region, where Russian federation has been applying pressure.
It also included some new points, including Bush-league'south want to update the Us' nuclear weapons chapters. Bush as well calls for increasing production of adjacent-generation stealth bombers.
And he too calls for doubling the U.S. Marine Corps' boxing-fix strength to 186,000.
"I believe in the principle that the greater our superiority in military ability, the less likely it is that nosotros will have to assert that power, or be provoked into using it," Bush-league said in the excerpts.
Bush, a year ago viewed as the likely front-runner, has failed to move to the top tier of GOP White House hopefuls in a field where political outsiders Donald Trump and Ben Carson and charismatic young lawmakers Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have eclipsed him.
Just Bush-league hinted Tuesday, campaigning in Columbia, that the Paris attacks could change the focus for choosing the next commander in principal.
Bush-league also appears to be anticipating criticism that he would wage war in Republic of iraq, as his father and blood brother did when they were president.
"I think it'southward of import for the adjacent president, whoever he or she may be, to acquire from the lessons of the past and use those lessons to focus on the future," Bush told an audition of more 300 at Coastal Carolina Academy in Conway Tuesday.
On Thursday in New York, Clinton will deliver an accost outlining her strategy for defeating ISIS likewise as her overall plan for fighting radical jihadism.
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