Título: Rick Santorum
Seção: Foreign policy
Background: Richard John Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American attorney, author, politician, and CNN Senior Political Commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and was the Senate's third-ranking Republican from 2001 to 2007. He ran as a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination, finishing second to Mitt Romney. Santorum was elected as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania in 1994.

Conteúdo: Santorum is a supporter of the War on Terror and shares the views of neoconservatives and the Bush Doctrine in regard to foreign policy. He felt the War in Iraq was justified, and, in 2006, declared that weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) had been found in Iraq. Santorum made the declaration regarding WMDs based in part on declassified portions of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command. The report stated that coalition forces had recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions that contain degraded or vacant mustard or sarin nerve agent casings. The specific weapons he referred to were chemical munitions dating back to the Iran-Iraq War that were buried in the early 1990s. The report stated that while agents had degraded to an unknown degree, they remained dangerous and possibly lethal. Officials of the Department of Defense, CIA intelligence analysts, and the White House have all explicitly stated that these expired casings were not part of the WMDs threat that the Iraq War was launched to contain.  Santorum has said the war on terror can be won and is optimistic about U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan in the long term. He has defended the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, including waterboarding, and stated that John McCain, who opposes the practice, "doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works." Santorum called the War in Afghanistan "a very winnable operation" in 2012, dismissing efforts for withdrawal by 2014. He similarly criticized Preside

user: What foreign policy is Rick in favor of?

assistant: Santorum is a supporter of the War on Terror and shares the views of neoconservatives and the Bush Doctrine in regard to foreign policy.

user: What did he feel about the War on Terror?

assistant: He felt the War in Iraq was justified, and, in 2006, declared that weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) had been found in Iraq.

user: In what other ways did he support the war?

assistant: Santorum has said the war on terror can be won and is optimistic about U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan in the long term.

user: Did he face any criticism?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What other foreign policy views does he had?

assistant: Santorum supports U.S. political intervention and economic sanctions against state sponsors of terrorism.

user: What did he say about Terrorism?

assistant: He said Iran was at the center of "much of the world's conflict" but he was opposed to direct military action against the country in 2006.

user: What else did he do in the area of terrorism?

assistant: He has defended the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, including waterboarding,

user: Why did he defend waterboarding?

assistant: stated that John McCain, who opposes the practice, "doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works."