In a new guest column published on the Fox News website today, Gov. Bobby Jindal says President Barack Obama’s administration’s bungling of foreign policy issues has left the country and Americans less safe than they were before he took office.
“President Obama has governed as if he does not believe in two critical foreign policy concepts: American exceptionalism, and peace through strength,” Jindal writes, citing failures in the White House response to Ebola, its handling of troops in Iraq and its weakness regarding Russia, among other things.
Jindal, who is widely considered a likely 2016 presidential candidate and has said he’ll make an announcement early next year regarding his decision, also takes a swipe in the column at Hillary Clinton, who is expected to have a clear path to the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race.
“In July, Hillary Clinton tried to defend this abysmal track record by claiming ‘the reset worked,’” Jindal writes in reference to Clinton’s defense of Obama’s handling of the situation in Russia. “She’s right: It did work wonderfully—for Vladimir Putin, who managed to ‘reset’ Russia’s borders after his Crimean land grab.”
Jindal goes on to further slam the Obama administration’s handling of the nuclear talks with both Iran and North Korea.
“As this administration has careened from crisis to crisis over the past several months, a bigger crisis has emerged: one of competence—in President Obama’s leadership, and in Washington’s ability to get things done,” he writes. “For a president who came into office promising to restore competence to the White House, his marked indifference towards governing has harmed the American people.” Read the full column.
