Speaking in New Hampshire after being projected to come third, Jon Huntsman said his experiences of living abroad suited him to leadership in a new era. “Afghanistan is not our nation’s future,” he told the crowd. “Iraq is not our nation’s future.”
“This is going to play out across the Pacific ocean in countries I have lived in,” he continued. And if things don’t go right, he warned, “it will be the end of the American Century by 2050.”