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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStop trying to make Mitt Romney’s foreign policy acumen happen. It isn’t going to happen.
Stop trying to make Mitt Romneys foreign policy acumen happen. It isnt going to happen.By Daniel W. Drezner at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/31/stop-trying-to-make-mitt-romneys-foreign-policy-acumen-happen-it-isnt-going-to-happen/
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Its the summer, some observers think theres a Big Lull going on, and I understand the need for commentators to commentate about something. So I dont begrudge Matt K. Lewiss effort to make Mitt Romney 2016 This Time, Hes the Underdog! happen. But there was one thing in his Week column that I cant let pass unmentioned: his claim that, in the intervening years since 2012 and on a range of issues, not the least of which is Russia Romney has been proven right. This refers to Romneys on-air description of Russia as our number one geopolitical foe.
This is a meme that has popped up with increasing regularity since last fall (even though, during the campaign, Romney backed away from that assertion) to the point where his 2012 foreign policy adviser Alex Wong tried to write an I told you so victory lap in Politico about it. On Russia in particular, Wong wrote:
During the 2012 campaign, Obama and his surrogates using what they clearly thought was a clever talking point enjoyed needling Romneys Russia policy as a throwback to the Cold War era. Employing what can only be described as willful blindness, they skipped over the recent history of the Georgia invasion, Putins own declared nostalgia for the Soviet Empire and all the other clear indications of a strong revanchist streak inside the Kremlin. For the Obama campaign, history stopped the day the Soviet Union fell. Throughout 2012, it was perpetually 1991.
But Romney was clear-eyed about Putin, and about the divergences between the ex-KGB agents interests and Americas own. Putin has never been a natural partner of the United States, and gaining cooperation from him can only be achieved by applying well-placed pressure to manipulate his interests. Granting Putin concessions and raising his international prestigeas Obama didonly emboldens him. And now the world is dealing with the consequences of an emboldened Vladimir Putin.
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Stop trying to make Mitt Romney’s foreign policy acumen happen. It isn’t going to happen. (Original Post)
applegrove
Aug 2014
OP
I fell asleep watching "Lockdown" on MSNBC and woke up just in time to hear one of the talking heads
Ghost in the Machine
Aug 2014
#3
He still hates the 47% that has now grown to 57%. He would not make a good President and we
kelliekat44
Aug 2014
#6
applegrove
(118,659 posts)1. Remember when one of Romney's sons was going to fly to Russia
and try to talk to Putin to lift his dad's bonafides? Days before the 2012 election? I think it was Tagg. That was incredibly naïve.
Segami
(14,923 posts)2. Sure, sure.....pass the corn..
Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)3. I fell asleep watching "Lockdown" on MSNBC and woke up just in time to hear one of the talking heads
saying something about Mittens running again in 2016. I fell back asleep before the news came on and didn't hear anything else about it.
Did anyone else happen to hear anything like that??
Peace,
Ghost
Blue Owl
(50,381 posts)4. But didn't they send him binders full of countries?
DUzy
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)6. He still hates the 47% that has now grown to 57%. He would not make a good President and we
all know that...even the ones now pumping him up. More skeletons will fall out of the closet.