On June 6th, 1984, the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan came to the cliffs of Normandy.

He spoke of the heroism of a battalion of army rangers who had scaled those cliffs under enemy fire,

among the millions who gave their lives to liberate Europe.

These are the boys of Puentejo.

These are the men who took the cliffs.

These are the champions who helped free a continent.

These are the heroes who helped end a war. Reagan made a passionate plea to his fellow Americans that day.

To give meaning to those heroes' sacrifice

by never turning their back on the world ever again.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars.

It is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea.

America had been protecting the peace with powerful alliances for decades.

We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be,

an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

Reagan was expressing a hallowed American ideal,

a bipartisan value shared by every president since World War II.

From this day forward, it's going to be only America first.

Until recently.

This is what today's Republican Party sounds like.

My amendment would direct the president withdrawal from NATO.

NATO has, for decades, sucked on the teat of the American taxpayer.

This is how it talks about longtime allies.

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