Republican presidential candidates and likely candidates lined up Saturday to take swings at President Obama’s foreign policy during the Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner.

Eleven official or rumored White House hopefuls criticized Obama’s mistakes abroad during the event in Des Moines.

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“We’re a resilient people,” Perry said of Americans.

“We’ve been through a Civil War, two World Wars,” he said. “We’ve been through a Jimmy Carter. We’ll make it through Barack Obama.”

Perry promised listeners that “the best days of America are ahead of us.”

His positive tone did not prevent him from strongly criticizing the Obama administration Saturday night.

“For the life of me, I don’t understand why Washington, D.C., thinks it is the font of all wisdom,” Perry said.

“You see ISIS showing up in Garland, Texas, and you see what a challenging world it is,” he said, citing a recent shooting inspired by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in his home state.

“I know it can be better,” Perry, a possible presidential candidate, added.

ISIS was a frequent concern of speakers.

“This is no longer simply a threat in Iraq or Syria or even Australia or Paris,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal , a rumored 2016 contender.

“The president needs to say that Islam has a problem, and that problem is radical Islam.”

“I think it’s a disaster,” Paul, a GOP presidential candidate, said of Libya . “I think it’s a failed state.”

“Maybe we should think before we act,” he added. “We’re talking about the Middle East, where history repeats itself.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) pushed even further, blaming Obama for the rise of jihadist terrorism in Iraq.

“I blame Barack Obama above all else for squandering the gains that were so hard to come by in Iraq,” Graham, a potential 2016 candidate, said.

“If you fought in Iraq, the surge worked,” he said. “It’s not your fault it’s going to hell.”

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush avoided discussion of the controversial 2003 invasion of Iraq launched by his older brother, former President George W. Bush.

He instead focused on his tenure as the Sunshine State’s governor between 1999 and 2007.

When Bush veered off that topic, it was to attack Obama’s priorities on foreign policy.

“Our friends needs to believe in us again and our enemies need to fear us again,” Bush said, touting a strategy of “peace through strength.”

“Country after country, our relationships are worse,” he added, calling Cuba and Iran the only exceptions.