Rubio’s Vacuity

Larison is fed up with Marco Rubio's approach to foreign policy:

I have followed Rubio on foreign policy since he was a candidate, and I have found that he doesn’t offer much except for “Wilsonian boilerplate” and party-line whining about how everything Obama has done has been too slow or insufficiently aggressive. He spends a lot of time in this new speech running through a Santorumesque check-list of governments he doesn’t like. He insists on treating them as intolerable threats, he makes a lot of broad claims about how America must fulfill its “rightful role” as hegemon, and he refuses to consider any meaningful cuts in military spending. Most of all, he’s predictably unsatisfied with almost everything the administration has done or not done.