http://www.nationalreview.com/article/427310/jeb-bush-foreign-policy-intervention-family-legacy Bush Embraces His Family’s Interventionist Legacy
By Tim Alberta — November 19, 2015
Charleston, S.C. — It wasn’t supposed to happen this way for Jeb Bush.
The presidential candidate whose campaign was to be anchored by talk of economic mobility — and who so often insists he’s his “own man,” endeavoring to escape the shadows of his brother and father — found himself calling for the deployment of American combat troops to the Middle East Wednesday, embracing a family legacy he was determined to transcend.
Gone was the gentleman who craves a wonkish campaign about education and taxes and entitlement programs, a person so determined to forge his own political identity that he long ago scrubbed his last name from campaign signs. In his place Wednesday stood someone so emboldened by global tumult that he unapologetically endorsed a notion his own allies have long thought could be politically suicidal — American military intervention in a region shaped by a quarter-century of complicated family history.
“The United States should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out ISIS with overwhelming force,” Bush told a roomful of cadets, military officials, and civilians here at The Citadel military college. The scope of America’s ground presence, he said, “should be in line with what our military generals recommend” as “necessary to achieve our objective.”
The announcement was an ironic twist in the story of Bush’s bizarre presidential campaign, with the onetime front-runner seizing on the issue his campaign least wanted to confront and using it to distinguish him from his competitors for the Republican nomination.
‘The United States should not delay in leading a global coalition to take out ISIS with overwhelming force.’
— Jeb Bush
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