Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal opened a new front in his attacks of the Obama administration, saying its foreign policy and inadequate funding of the military will spark more "chaos" and "wars."
"Today, we are living with the consequences of the Obama-Clinton ideas when it comes to foreign, domestic, and defense policy," Jindal said in a
speech to the American Enterprise Institute.
"And those ideas have set America on a path that will create more chaos, more conflict, and more wars."
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Jindal said the United States should increase spending to the levels recommended by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in 2011, the
Washington Free Beacon reports.
"It is amazing to me that at a time we are spending a record amount on our federal government we are actually spending less than in seventy years defending our country," Jindal told the crowd. "It is better to have peace through strength than war through weakness."
Jindal — who said he won't decide on whether he'll vie for the GOP nomination as president in 2016 until after the holidays — took a direct shot at possible Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
"If only [President Obama] had had the help of a wise steady hand, a policy expert in dealing with foreign affairs, he would have come up with better answers, but instead he just had Hillary Clinton."
And just hours after President Barack
Obama announced procedures for Ebola screening, Jindal doubled down on his
calls for a ban on flights from Ebola-stricken West Africa.
"I’m not arguing that we should not allow medical and defense and other personnel into West Africa," he said. "I’m saying it just makes sense to stop these civilian flights from West Africa into the United States, at the very least as a common sense step to protect our country to make sure you don’t see this spread here."
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