Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush argued Saturday that American foreign policy should frighten the nation’s enemies abroad with its strength.

“The basic policy should be our friends know we have their back over the long haul, and our enemies need to fear us again,” Bush said at the South Carolina GOP convention in Columbia, according to the Associated Press

Bush added that he thought President Obama’s strategy abroad has been an “unmitigated disaster” thus far. Hillary Clinton’s would not fare much better, he said, should she get elected president in 2016.

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“Hillary Clinton is not going to be the person to lead us to a more stable future,” Bush said. “She has her fingerprints on all these foreign policy disasters.”

Bush’s criticisms come as he weighs his own 2016 GOP presidential bid. The former governor has not yet publicly decided whether he will seek the executive mansion next election cycle.

Should he run, he would embark on the same path that brought his brother, George W. Bush, and his father, George H.W. Bush, to the Oval Office before him.

Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) have already begun campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination next year.

Clinton, the former secretary of State, is currently vying with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for the Democratic coronation on the other side of the political spectrum.