Christie calls for larger military, more US intervention in NH speech

Governor Christie criticized President Obama, Vladimir Putin, and the Iranian regime during a speech laying 
out his vision for U.S. foreign policy on Monday.

“When a threat appears from over the horizon, our country gets ready – not when that threat arrives on our doorstep or when it’s popular,” Christie said in the prepared remarks. “We have never ignored the crises in the world around us.

Throughout history, leaders in both parties have based our foreign policy on these principles - strength, leadership and partnership with the people and nations who share our values.”

A nuclear agreement President Obama is negotiating with Iran raises “grave concerns,” Christie said in the remarks, and could lead several Middle Eastern countries to attain nuclear-arms capability. The governor says Iran should be contained because its influence is “is absolutely radioactive to the world.”


“With Iran, the President’s eagerness for a deal on their nuclear program has him ready to accept a bad deal,” Christie said. “The framework we’ve negotiated here seems pretty flimsy, and I have grave concerns over how we’re going to make the Iranians live up to their end of the bargain and how we can ensure proper, verifiable compliance.

So until we get that, we should have the strength to keep our guard up and keep our sanctions up.”

'Iran might not have the bomb right now — but their influence is absolutely radioactive to the world,' the New Jersey governor says in prepared remarks released by his political action committee. 'So we need to contain it with our moderate Sunni Arab allies, while at the same time rolling back the shadow of ISIS,' he said, using another acronym for Islamic State.