Kinzinger: ‘In the Last Six Years, We’ve Blown the Last 60 Years of American Credibility’

KINZINGER: “It pains me to say it. This isn’t something I celebrate to be able to attack the president on because this is America’s reputation. It really feels like in the last six years we’ve blown the last 60 years of American credibility. You know, obviously we have the explosion of ISIS. Now we find out they’re in Libya, they are in a lot of places. They’re in my district, frankly, in Rockford, Illinois, we found out.

And look at what is going on Ukraine. Russia has torn apart one of the largest countries in Europe and this administration has stood back and denied given defensive weapons to the Ukrainians to defend their own homeland. And then you look at the brutality of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, who's killed 200,000 people, mostly women and children, and president said they would train the opposition but has failed to do so. Literally, our enemies don’t  fear us and our allies are very confused by where we stand. So it is a very bad position to be in …

Historically, the president will be judged as one of the most failed foreign policy presidents this country has had. I don’t cheer that. I hope this turns around on a dime. I would love to see the president restore American leadership around the globe. I will be the first person cheering him on to do it but I just haven’t seen the indication of that.”