Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Sunday that if he chooses to run for president in 2016, he will outline a clear contrast to the policies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"If I choose to get in this race, [foreign policy is] something I'm going to lay out a very clear plan for what we should do going forward, and how we should address the issues we face here in America and the issues we face around the world," Walker said on
"Face the Nation." "I think there's a wide open door to lay out a very clear doctrine.
"And I do think that if foreign policy plays an important role, the contrast would be clear.
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"Just about everywhere that Hillary Clinton has played a role with this president, under President Obama, that part of the world is largely a failure, a mess, because of the policies that we've seen from Obama and Clinton," Walker said.
The governor is not an announced candidate, and said he wouldn't be making an announcement before the end of June when his state's budgets are complete.
Walker also was asked the question that has caused former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush trouble the past week: Would he have acted differently in Iraq.
"I think any president, regardless of party, probably would've made a similar decision to what President Bush did at the time, with the information he had available," Walker said. "Remember, even Secretary of State, then-Sen. Clinton, voted for a measure supporting the Iraq War. I think it was a failure in many cases in the intelligence that was given to the president, to the Congress at the time.
"Knowing what we know now, I think it's safe for many of us, myself included, to say, we probably wouldn't have taken that tact."
Nonetheless, Walker said President Barack Obama "made a mistake by urging the country to pull back from our state in Iraq."
Walker defended his recent comment that President Ronald Reagan's firing of air traffic controllers in 1981 was the most significant foreign policy decision in his lifetime.
Host Bob Schieffer asked if it was really bigger than President Richard Nixon's trip to China.
Walker said that even former Secretary of State George Shultz called the firings the most important action of Reagan's administration.
Though Walker was alive during Nixon's China trip, he said, "I had just turned 13 two days before [Reagan's] election in 1980, and for me, looking at that kind of leadership, he set the tone not just domestically with that action, he sent the message around the world as you just read off, I think not only to our allies, that this was someone that was serious, that could be trusted. But in combination with our adversaries, they sent a clear message not to mess with him."
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