Sen. Ted Cruz

in a way that might make America safe.

Obama administration never articulated anything like it, and so I vocally opposed that military action because it didn't make America safe.

Contrast this with Iran.

Iran has been actively killing Americans and has plans to continue killing Americans.

What is interesting, when I say non-interventionist hawk, I think there are two presidents in modern times that reflect that same philosophy.

One is Donald Trump.

Now, Donald Trump doesn't articulate it using the same language I do.

But if you look at Trump's foreign policy and national security policy, virtually every foreign policy and national security decision Trump has made, I agree with.

And that's not accidental because for many of those decisions, I've been advocating those choices.

And so he's agreed with me as we've talked about them.

The other president who had a very similar philosophy was Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan called it peace through strength.

You look at it in eight years,

As president, the biggest country Reagan ever invaded was Grenada.

He was not one of the interventionists whose solution to everything was send the Marines.

We see a country, let's invade it.

We see a country, let's invade it.

I'm not interested in that.

But he simultaneously rebuilt the military, bankrupted the Soviet Union and won the Cold War without firing a shot.

That is peace through strength.