The Lincoln-Douglas style debate at
St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH was serene—tranquil in fact. The “debate” centered on foreign policy
issues.
Viewers were struck by the vast
knowledge both candidates possess on foreign affairs. Their approaches were levelheaded—a far cry
from those of Bachmann and Perry.
When the topic of Iran was raised,
Gingrich and Huntsman both agreed that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran poses
the most serious threat to the US in the next decade.
Gingrich warned, “I want all of you to
think about how serious this is. A
movement which recruits its own children to learn how to be suicide bombers…to
blow themselves up in order to kill you is a movement that, with nuclear
weapons, would use them in a heartbeat because there’s no effective deterrent. If you’re determined that they not have
nuclear weapons, I believe you have to be ultimately for regime change, because
there’s no practical scenario in which you can take out their weapons systems
without them rebuilding them.”
The former Speaker of the House made
the dire prediction that if Iran does acquire nuclear weapons that a second
Holocaust would, almost certainly, be visited upon the people of Israel.
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