Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds: ‘We Can’t Be Strong Abroad, If We’re Weak at Home’
March 2, 2022 | Iowa
Bringing the United States back to the Obama doctrine of leading from behind has put the country back in the late ’70s, Iowa GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds said in the official GOP response Tuesday to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
“Instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late ’70s and early ’80s: When runaway inflation was hammering families, a violent crime wave was crashing our cities, and the Soviet army was trying to redraw the world map,” Reynolds said in prepared remarks.
Reynolds, who denounced Biden’s rising inflation, first started with a rebuke of permitting Russia’s Vladimir Putin to move in on Ukraine.
“We shouldn’t ignore what happened in the run up to Putin’s invasion: Waiving sanctions on Russian pipelines while eliminating oil production here at home; focusing on political correctness rather than military readiness; reacting to world events instead of driving them,” Reynolds continued. “Weakness on the world stage has a cost, and the president’s approach to foreign policy has consistently been too little too late…. (Excerpts from Newsmax)
