Walker moves to foreign policy in SC speech

Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker will turn to foreign policy in a speech on Friday, arguing that “the world is complex, but some things are simple” in the early primary state of South Carolina.

“There is good and there is evil,” Walker will say, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks released by his campaign.

{mosads}”America is a force for good in the world. Radical Islamic terrorists are agents of pure evil,” Walker will add, referring primarily to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Walker’s speech, to be delivered in Charleston, touches on the Iran deal and comes as the Wisconsin governor looks to flesh out his campaign credentials on issues outside domestic policy.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered the first major foreign policy speech of the 2016 candidates earlier this month in California, also focusing on ISIS and the Middle East.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a hawkish presidential candidate, will also deliver a foreign policy speech on Friday in Charleston, focused on China, something Walker has also looked at this week.

“We cannot afford to lose the fight against radical Islamic terrorism. The rest of the world is watching how we confront the challenge of the Middle East,” Walker will say in his remarks.

“How can we deter our sophisticated adversaries in Eastern Europe and competitors in the South China Sea if we cannot defeat the barbarians of ISIS and roll back the theocrats in Tehran?”