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Romney Shredded Obama's Foreign Policy Failures
Topic Started: Oct 24 2012, 08:45 AM (92 Views)
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Romney Shredded Obama's Foreign Policy Failures


The pundit class thinks Barack Obama "won" Monday's foreign-policy debate. Apparently they didn't hear Mitt Romney's devastating — and unchallenged — critiques of Obama's massive foreign-policy failures.

We'll admit we would have preferred the more aggressive Romney from Debate 1 showed up in the last of the three presidential showdowns and that he had forcefully attacked Obama's handling of the Benghazi disaster, among other things.

But Romney's goal was obvious: He wanted to come across as a credible leader on the world stage, someone who would steadfastly protect our national security.

There's no question he accomplished that. If anything, his calm, reasonable, well-informed demeanor made him look more trustworthy in this regard than Obama's emotional, prickly, peevish, downright nasty performance.

Romney, however, did more than just present himself as a plausible commander in chief. Throughout the debate, he patiently dismantled Obama's foreign policy failures around the world.

Consider this Romney line, worth quoting at length:

"I look at what's happening around the world and I see Iran four years closer to a bomb. I see the Middle East with a rising tide of violence, chaos, tumult. I see jihadists continuing to spread. I see Syria with 30,000 civilians dead, Assad still in power. I see our trade deficit with China ... growing larger every year.

"You see North Korea continuing to export their nuclear technology. Russia's ... backing away from their nuclear proliferation treaty that we had with them.

"I look around the world, I don't see our influence growing around the world. I see our influence receding."

And Romney made clear that Obama's inability to lead is the reason behind these failures.

On Iran: "One of the challenges we've had with Iran is that they have looked at this administration and felt that the administration was not as strong as it needed to be. I think they saw weakness where they had expected to find American strength."

On Syria: "We've watched over the past year or so first the president saying, well, we'll let the U.N. deal with it. ... That didn't work. Then (he) looked to the Russians. ... We should be playing the leadership role there."

On Russia: "I'm certainly not going to say to (Putin), 'I'll give you more flexibility after the election.' After the election, he'll get more backbone."

On Israel: "The president received a letter from 38 Democrat senators saying the tensions with Israel were a real problem."

Romney also deftly attacked Obama's apology tour: "You went to the Middle East ... and then in those nations and on Arabic TV you said that America had been dismissive and derisive. You said that on occasion America had dictated to other nations. Mr. President, America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators."

He shredded Obama's reckless defense cuts: "The secretary of defense called these trillion dollars of cuts to our military devastating. It's not my term. It's the president's own secretary of defense."

Romney also explained why weakness at home makes it harder for America to lead abroad: "For us to be able to promote those principles of peace requires us to be strong, and that begins with a strong economy here at home, and unfortunately, the economy is not stronger."

And Romney perfectly summed up Obama's foreign policy failures in one sentence:

"Nowhere in the world is America's influence greater today than it was four years ago."

When Obama did respond to these charges, it was with petty, ad hominem attacks along the lines of "you were still invested in a Chinese state oil company that was doing business with the Iranian oil sector."

But short of repeating his "I killed Osama bin Laden" mantra, what else could Obama do?

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