Jen Rubin has a write up of the speech here and you can see video of the speech here. Some key quotes:
The essence of his address was a refutation of the engagement approach to Iran. He bluntly stated, “We need to recognize that there are some regimes we will never be able to cut a deal with because they are in fact evil.”And as if that was not clear enough he explained, “Ahmadinejad if he gets the weapons will be every bit as evil as Hilter.” There is, he says, “civilization and anti-civilization” and both the Bush and Obama administrations, he contends, do a disservice by minimizing the dangers we face from an “anti-civilization” regime bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.
Also, Newt expanded on his speech in an interview with the Jerusalem Post:
“They are systematically setting up the most decisive confrontation that we’ve ever seen,” the leading Republican politician told The Jerusalem Post, referring to news reports about the administration’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “There’s almost an eagerness to take on the Israeli government to make a point with the Arab world,” he said, speaking to the Post ahead of his speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual conference. He called US President Barack Obama’s program of engagement on Iran a “fantasy,” and his Middle East policies “very dangerous for Israel.” He summed up Obama’s approach as “the clearest adoption of weakness since Jimmy Carter.”
