General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo what happened to the great foreign policy speech from
the pathological LIAR?
elleng
(130,948 posts)and Obama campaign responded:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/obama-campaign-hits-back-on-romney-foreign-policy-speech/?hpw
My conclusion: rmoney HAS NO policy.
Rmoney is not ready for prime time
elleng
(130,948 posts)In a conference call with reporters following the speech, Albright said that the event left her more confused because Romney had supported intervention in Libya and now he was against it, and he had changed positions on arming the opposition in Syria.
Theres an awful lot of rhetoric and things, but when you get to the specifics you dont get the sense that he knows exactly what tools to use and how to operate within an international setting, the former secretary explained. I know the people that are around Gov. Romney and a lot of them are kind of division of neocons and {some are} even more conservative and some realists. But the truth is, a lot of them are exactly the people that brought us the previous administrations Bushs administrations eight years. And were still dealing with the consequences of that.
She added that the speech was full of platitudes and free of substance. You know, peace through strength, clarity, resolve. Those arent really foreign policies.
Albright pointed out that Romney was dead wrong to claim that Obama had not signed any free trade agreements because the president had signed three: with Panama, Columbia and South Korea.
This is kind of typical of what the Romney campaign does, is kind of assert something that is simply not true, she said, later speculating that he doesnt read his briefing papers.
I just find him very shallow in the ideas that he has.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251126998
malaise
(269,022 posts)although truthfully shallow is a euphemism for what he's parading as foreign policy.
elleng
(130,948 posts)Unfortunately there's too much diplo-speak around these days, used by those who are NOT professionsl diplomats.
Nancy Waterman
(6,407 posts)She has a lot of credibility.
underpants
(182,823 posts)It was also a day when Gov. Mitt Romney pledged that, if elected president, hed change the course of events here.
Among other things, he wants to green-light heavy weapons to the Syrian rebels who share our values in order to defeat the tanks, helicopters and fighter jets of the Bashar Assad regime.
For its part, the Obama administration says it has refrained from supplying the rebels with weapons out of concern that they could end up in terrorist hands.
If Turkey, a NATO member, is fed up and invades Syria, NATO would have no choice but to intervene in Syria. And you can bet that Iran would become involved, and this could quickly turn into a region-wide conflict between Turkey, NATO, Saudi Arabia and Qatar on the one hand, and Iran, Iraq, Hezbollah and Syria on the other.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/08/14298721-more-weapons-in-syria-could-trigger-all-out-war?lite