Dana Milbank: A scrubbing on foreign policy

[highplainsdem]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-a-scrubbing-on-foreign-policy/2012/10/08/f9e34e78-118e-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html

Susceptibility to brainwashing is apparently an inherited trait. If brainwashing accounts for a change in position, George’s son Mitt has had his gray matter cleansed more often than most people shampoo their hair.

The “brainwashing” interview ended the elder Romney’s career. But brainwashing doesn’t carry the stigma it did 45 years ago. Scrubbing one’s brain clean of previous positions has been Mitt Romney’s stock in trade. In fact, his foreign-policy speech Monday to the Virginia Military Institute was one long gargle-and-rinse of the candidate’s previous positions.

Last year, Romney called the Obama administration’s intervention in Libya “mission creep and mission muddle.” On Monday, he accused Obama of declining to use “America’s greatest power to shape history” and of eschewing “our best examples of world leadership” in that same corner of the world.

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As the lather rinses, questions remain: Was Romney brainwashed before? Is he being brainwashed now? Or is it a continuous cleaning cycle?

[Gman]

1. Everything Romney says these days about foreign policy reeks of PNAC

and John Bolten.