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Aides say Mitt Romney is aiming for a foreign policy that would resemble President Reagan's. He wants to assert U.S. leadership but 'with a more cautious view of where and when we use force.'
By Paul Richter, Washington Bureau
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A senior Republican strategist close to the campaign said Romney was groping for a "version 2.0" of the foreign policy of the Bush era, but one that would more resemble President Reagan's in the Cold War. It would seek to assert American leadership and values with a powerful military and bold rhetoric, but "with a more cautious view of where and when we use force."
The imperative is to avoid "the mistakes and miscalculations of the last decade," said the strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak about internal deliberations. "The Bush foreign policy is a terrible brand."
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Romney doesn't have a single dominating figure who oversees his foreign agenda, relying instead on a group of about 200 outside advisors, campaign staff and other experts. About two-thirds are veterans of the Bush administration.
Among them are several prominent neoconservatives and defense hawks, including Elliott Abrams, Bush's deputy national security aide; Elizabeth Cheney, a former Bush State Department official and the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney; Dan Senor, former spokesman for the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq; John R. Bolton, Bush's ambassador to the United Nations; and Robert Kagan, a Reagan administration aide and conservative intellectual.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-romney-foreign-policy-20121015,0,2683558.story
Nice try Mittwit.
CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)Romney's foreign-police team is loaded with these reptilian, colossal-failure neocons.
Again, Obama needs to mention this during the debate. Name names. Connect them back to their positions in the Bush White House.
So fucking sick of these Republican lies---and also how stupid they assume the people of this country are.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Spare me WilLIARd Rmoney.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)he plans on firing them, right? Otherwise, he still plans on taking their advice and appointing at least some of them if (heaven forbid) he gets elected POTUS
AzDar
(14,023 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Also take a look at the economic team. It is Bush 2.0 as well. Both should go around Romney's neck. People forget that Bush had anemic growth and whopping deficits before crash (he took a balanced budget and turned into a $300B annual deficit before rocketing up to $1T in his last year). He took private sector job growth from around 2%/yr for Clinton to a continuing dropping line until it went vertical at the crash. 12 million new jobs (250,000/yr.). Obama is at 130,000/yr. private sector jobs now (about what Bush achieved before the crash).