“We’re not going to be lectured by someone who’s been an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy...

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/10/8/124717/731

Romney's Stupid Foreign Policy Speech

by BooMan
Mon Oct 8th, 2012 at 12:47:17 PM EST


Mitt Romney attacked the president's foreign policy today in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute. The Obama team was having none of it.

“We’re not going to be lectured by someone who’s been an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy every time he’s dipped his toe in the foreign policy waters,” said [Obama] campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

Romney spent 80% of his speech making nagging little complaints about the president's stellar foreign policy record. His only ideas were to increase defense spending (especially on the Navy), get involved in Syria's civil war, stay longer in Afghanistan, make more bellicose threats against Iran, cozy up more to Israel's right-wing government, and to make all foreign aid in the Arab World conditional on them endorsing Israel's (and our) foreign policy.

He didn't mention allies like Australia, South Korea or Japan. He didn't mention Latin America except to lie once again by saying that the president hasn't signed any new free trade agreements (tell that to Panama, Colombia or South Korea). Romney didn't have anything to say about our relations with Pakistan. His only new policy for NATO was to demand that they spend more money on weapons.

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If anything, it's Obama who has been willing to be different. He didn't try to put the lid on the democratic aspirations of the Arab Spring. He went to Cairo and encouraged the Arab people to pursue justice. Then he carefully managed the resulting unrest and political turmoil. For once, America didn't sell its principles in the Middle East for a little bit of stability.

Romney is like a swarm of gnats. He has nothing interesting to say about foreign policy, but is annoying nonetheless.

[MichiganVote]

1. Yeah, especially after O took out Bin Laden....smirk

[young_at_heart]

4. I'm quite happy with his foreign policy----I think he's one of the best at this

I'm also very happy with Joe Biden as VP----his many years of experience is invaluable, not to mention he's a decent human being, as opposed to just about any Republican you can think of!

[Cha]

5. Yeah, we are being Honest. Foreign Policy is President Obama's

strong suit.

Stop spewing rw propaganda.

[Scootaloo]

3. One thing needs to be gotten straight...

The media - and voters too - need to stop pretending that presidents are "compartmentalized," that different functions of their job have no impact on, and are not impacted by, the president's day-to-day.

Romney is an insecure "alpha male," who believes it is his "destiny" to rule others. You can see this in almost every instance of his early life, home life, and professional life. he assaults another student at college and shaves his head, proving who's boss. He apparently cheats to win at family games, and pushes his kids' and grandkids' faces into food. He "likes firing people." His ideas for the economy are, again, all about firing people. And from what we've heard on his foreign policy stances, he equates leadership with launching missiles.

He is an aggressive, violent person at heart, someone who feels entitled by his own privilege, yet insecure because of his inability to meet his fathers' standards. he is a weak man who demands that others think him strong.

And he wants access to our nuclear weapons.

[bushisanidiot]

6. Romney, the pro-war draft dodger is really showing his ass right now

he's trying to speak on something HE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT.

independents who were with him, will walk away on this issue alone.

[babylonsister]

8. We can hope, but I don't underestimate the

stupidity of a lot of people.

[bushisanidiot]

9. the stupidity of a lot of people will be the only reason the President gets 300 electoral

points instead of 538

[TexasCPA]

7. We can't afford to go backwards to a Bush Jr. foreign policy

Imperialism never succeeds. Borrowing money to fight endless wars makes America weak.

[bushisanidiot]

10. +1

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[bushisanidiot]

11. "an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy" i love it!

hit him where it hurts!