 My fellow Americans tomorrow my opponent and I will debate foreign policy in Kansas City So I'd like to talk to you about the foreign policy choice for our future as I see it I am in speaking about his economic policies. I've said my opponent is a man of the past whose administration's Domestic policies failed and made America weak Well, that goes for foreign policy as well Mr. Mondale as a senator later is understudied to Jimmy Carter and still today is seen possessed with one simple But very wrong idea American strength is a threat to world peace and he's devoted a political career to opposing our strength Exposing us to dangerous unnecessary risks as a senator He voted time and again against American strength against technological advances meant to better protect our security He voted against the cruise missile the B1 bomber the Triton submarine and against salary increases for the military Yes, he did vote for certain things He voted for cutting US troops in Europe for cutting our military manpower and for cutting our defense budgets How can a politician even face the young people who protect our freedom after he's voted to deny them the equipment and protection? They need my opponent's Senate voting record on defense was so weak. He ranked right next to George McGovern The Carter-Mondale administration echoed this defeatist spirit by the late 1970s the policies of unilateral Concession were giving the Soviet Union military advantages over the United States in the west the Soviets installed missiles that created new Vulnerabilities in Europe and put new strains on the NATO alliance During those years the Soviet Union expanded its influence in Africa Asia the Middle East and here in our own hemisphere They overturned or took control of a new country every year Meanwhile the Carter-Mondale administration negotiated an arms agreement so weak They couldn't get it approved in a Senate controlled by their own party My opponent talks about the Carter-Mondale years as a period of relaxed tension. Well, it's true They relaxed but the Soviets didn't what troubles me most is how little he seems to have learned about the dangers of weakness and naive thinking I don't question his patriotism. I do question his judgment In 1968 he said that the days of Soviet suppression by force were over Then the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, but he didn't learn he voted against American military strength during the 1970s even as the Soviets were embarking upon the most massive military build-up in history after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 Stomondale still hadn't learned he said I cannot understand it just baffles me Why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have and why do they have to build up all those arms? Well today he still advocates unilateral cuts in important weapon systems Still argues for a freeze which his own running mate admits is not fully verifiable and mr. Carter's former national security advisor describes as a hoax Senator Glenn a Democrat has warned that Walter Mondale's defense policies would emasculate America Senator Hollings a Democrat said Walter Mondale thinks the Soviet Union would never violate an arms agreement I think he's naive Well to borrow mr. Mondale's expression. He seems baffled by so much He was confused about the rightness of freeing our students in the island of Grenada He said that liberation took away our moral authority to criticize the Soviets about Afghanistan Yet he could not bring himself to repudiate the Reverend Jesse Jackson after he had traveled to Cuba and said Long live Cuba long live Castro long live Che Guevara Well in the past three and a half years Our administration has demonstrated the true relationship between strength and confidence and democracy and peace We've restored our economy and begun to restore our military strength This is the true foundation for a future that is more peaceful and free We've made America and our alliance is stronger in the world safer We've discouraged Soviet expansion by helping countries help themselves and new democracies have emerged in El Salvador Honduras Grenada Panama and Argentina We have maintained peace and begun a new dialogue with the Soviets We're ready to go back to the table to discuss arms control and other problems with the Soviet leaders Today we can talk and negotiate in confidence because we can negotiate from strength Only my opponent thinks America can build a more peaceful future on the weakness of a failed past Until next week. Thanks for listening. God bless you