Rubio likes to talk of “American exceptionalism,” which means different things to different people. To him, it means America is in charge, almost by divine right.

Rubio favored the invasion and lengthy occupation of Iraq. He supported the Obama administration’s efforts to help overthrow and kill Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi, who had gone to some effort to make peace with America. The aftermath led to a state that now harbors anti-American terror groups, as we saw vividly illustrated in the infamous September 11, 2012, attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans.

The Florida senator supports America’s simultaneous anti-ISIS, anti-Assad efforts in Syria, which helped create the refugee crisis threatening Europe. Rubio calls Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin a “gangster” and a “thug” for taking Assad’s side against ISIS and other regime foes.

Rubio also wants “boots on the ground” in Iraq, fighting ISIS. He insists these should be Arab boots to American voters who do not want to throw “our boys” back into the maelstrom, yet he also insisted he would be against amnesty when he ran for the Senate seat that he is now trying to use as a springboard to the presidency. How did that work out?