Santorum maintains focus on national security
Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum kicked of a series of four speeches yesterday across the state in which he addressed “a gathering storm.”
As other Republicans attempt to steer away from Iraq and terrorism, Sen. Rick Santorum argued yesterday that America must stop “sleepwalking” while “evil enemies” plot the nation’s destruction - making foreign policy a focal point in the final days of his campaign.
In the first of a two-day series of speeches across the state, Santorum also described his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey Jr., as being “unready, unqualified for the high office he seeks at a time when our survival as a free people is at stake.”
Santorum linked Iran and North Korea with a network of enemies that include Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Islamic extremism in general. Quoting Winston Churchill, Santorum said that, as in the lead-up to World War II, America does not recognize the “gathering storm.”
“Unlike the past, the wicked are not just building a military machine that can threaten us with a large war on the ground and in the air, they are building weapons of mass destruction unlike anything we have ever seen… . The consequences are higher than they’ve ever been,” Santorum told cadets at Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne.
Santorum is no stranger to this topic. Aside from being one of the Senate’s leading hawks on Iran, Santorum recently delivered a major policy speech at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on the same issue.