Gingrich’s Foreign Policy Words Summon the Cold War, but Enemy Is Iran
By TRIP GABRIEL
NYT
Should Newt Gingrich become president, his foreign policy vision might remind many people of the cold war. But this time the threat would be from a nuclear-armed Iran rather than the Soviet Union.
Mr. Gingrich, who is fond of big overarching ideas, has yet to give a major foreign policy speech, but he has staked out positions while campaigning that suggest a nascent Gingrich Doctrine, one that looks to decades of struggle against radical Islam.
Even as President Obama winds down American commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Gingrich is warning of a protracted ideological struggle — and perhaps military intervention in Iran — as part of a battle of ideas in the Muslim world.
The United States is “about where we were in 1946” up against the Soviet Union, he said recently.
(More here.)
NYT
Should Newt Gingrich become president, his foreign policy vision might remind many people of the cold war. But this time the threat would be from a nuclear-armed Iran rather than the Soviet Union.
Mr. Gingrich, who is fond of big overarching ideas, has yet to give a major foreign policy speech, but he has staked out positions while campaigning that suggest a nascent Gingrich Doctrine, one that looks to decades of struggle against radical Islam.
Even as President Obama winds down American commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Gingrich is warning of a protracted ideological struggle — and perhaps military intervention in Iran — as part of a battle of ideas in the Muslim world.
The United States is “about where we were in 1946” up against the Soviet Union, he said recently.
(More here.)
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