“The United States has an undiminished ability to shape events and build alliances of free people,” he said. “We can project power and enforce peaceful stability in far-off areas of the globe he would increase the Pentagon budget, mentioning “shortfalls in our defense spending.” And he praised the aggressive surveillance efforts of the National Security Agency that began under his brother, calling the agency’s dragnet of data on Americans’ communications a “hugely important program.” Jeb