(CNSNews.com) – There was little new or unexpected on foreign policy in Thursday night's Trump-less GOP presidential debate, but the two candidates who vied for the most talk time, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both argued strongly for the need to rebuild a shrinking U.S. military in order to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The Fox News debate in Des Moines, Iowa came two weeks after President Obama, in a State of the Union dig at Republican critics, scoffed at "all the rhetoric you hear about our enemies getting stronger and America getting weaker."