{"id":9080,"date":"2012-10-09T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9080"},"modified":"2012-10-09T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:24:22","slug":"acute-foreign-policy-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/acute-foreign-policy-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute Foreign Policy Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever Willard Romney has delved into foreign policy, the result has been a disaster.  He insulted Great Britain, and actually called Russia our number one enemy, for starters.  In his attempt to reinvent himself before election day, he gave what he called a major foreign policy speech yesterday at VMI.  Were I a doctor, the diagnosis from Dr. TomCat would be Acute Foreign Policy Disorder.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Romney2Face\"Mitt Romney mounted a big foreign policy display on a flag-draped stage at the Virginia Military Institute on Monday, serving up a lot of tough-sounding sound bites<\/a> and hawkish bumper stickers, some of them even bumping up somewhere close to the truth, to give the appearance that he would be stronger and more forceful on international affairs than President Obama.<\/p>\n

He seems to consider himself, ludicrously, a leader similar to the likes of Harry Truman and George Marshall, and, at one point, he obliquely questioned Mr. Obama\u2019s patriotism<\/strong>. The hope seems to be that big propaganda, said loudly and often, will drown out Mr. Obama\u2019s respectable record in world affairs, make Americans believe Mr. Romney would be the better leader and cover up the fact that there is mostly just hot air behind his pronouncements<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Mr. Romney\u2019s stated policies in Monday\u2019s speech<\/a>, just as they have been in the past, are either pretty much like Mr. Obama\u2019s or, when there are hints of differences, would pull the United States in wrong and even dangerous directions<\/strong>. His analysis of the roots of various international crises is either na\u00efve or deliberately misleading<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

One new element is Mr. Romney\u2019s assertion that the threats have \u201cgrown worse.\u201d He desperately wants to undercut the edge that voters have given Mr. Obama on foreign policy, even before he ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden. But he offers no real evidence to back up that particular claim, and if it were true that the threats have been so much worse for so long, it\u2019s odd that Mr. Romney hasn\u2019t really talked about them before<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ed Schultz and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discussed Romney’s foreign policy lies and his advisors.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Willard sure sang a different tune on Palestine when he talked to 1% cronies! He lied about Obama’s record. Do you want John Bolton and Robert Joseph (author of Bush’s WMD lies) making foreign policy decisions? Wilkerson is no bleeding heart liberal. He is a Republican. He is correct that we do not need Romney’s massive military spending increases, and he is correct about Romney’s foreign policy advisors. The notion of these people making decisions is horrifying!<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow reviewed Romney’s defense budget and other foreign policy weaknesses.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Is that budget through the roof or what? I don’t understand the purpose of his lie about no discussion of terrorism in 2008. He must be lying just for practice. Hope from Obama may not be a strategy, but it is Romney’s avowed policy.<\/font><\/p>\n

We can’t know what Lord Willard’s actual foreign policy might be, but we know that the people in his corner calling the shots are the same ones that failed to prevent 9\/11, mangled the effort in Afghanistan, and started the war in Iraq under false pretenses.<\/font><\/p>\n

Finally, there have been no screams of agony from the rabid Republican base at this new, more moderate, Romney.  If they believed for a minute that he was telling the truth, and not just saying what\u2019s needed to fool voters, they would be screaming bloody murder.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever Willard Romney has delved into foreign policy, the result has been a disaster.  He insulted Great Britain, and actually called Russia our number one enemy, for starters.  In his attempt to reinvent himself before election day, he gave what he called a major foreign policy speech yesterday at VMI.  Were I a doctor, the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}