Romney readies foreign policy attack

  • Article by: DAVID E. SANGER , New York Times
  • Updated: October 7, 2012 - 11:56 PM

In a speech at the Virginia Military Institute, the GOP candidate will declare that "hope is not a strategy."

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crystalbayOct. 8, 12 1:28 AM

A man who's entire foreign relations experience is two years in Paris pushing his religion? I don't think so. His brief foray abroad was a series of diplomatic blunders. He managed, in just five days, to insult four separate countries through his tone-deafness and cluelessness about diplomacy. He called Russia our "#1 geopolitical enemy"; he criticized China last week; he neglected to even mention the war or troops in his acceptance speech. When this blew back on him, he lied by saying that the reason he didn't mention it was that he'd given "An extensive speech on this subject" the day before for a group of vets. Turns out that he uttered only ONE sentence directly about the war. He's buddying up with the hard-right Netanyahu for fund-raising purposes and offended Palestinians by saying that their culture is inferior to Israel's. Then, he blunders and breaks protocol/tradition by criticizing our commander-in-chief in the midst of an international crisis! No thinking politician would EVER commit such an unpatriotic offense, especially before even gathering enough information to know what he was talking about. No, Mitt's a foreign relations disaster in the making and belongs no where near a position of true power.

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alaskanredOct. 8, 12 6:20 AM

"Romney has yet to fill in many details of how he would conduct foreign policy, or resolve deep ideological rifts within the GOP and his own foreign policy team."************ Really now... you don't say... How can that be true? I mean is it that just doesn't have time to explain or he wants us to go to his website and read that booklet that is less detailed than his speeches.

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select1wOct. 8, 12 7:48 AM

I wouldn't expect any other approach to an undelievered speech than what i just read in this article written by a reporter for the most liberal paper in the world...The New York Times. However you'll never see anything about Obama's foreign policy catastrophes we just witnessed in the loss of life to a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in the Middle East. Nor will the Times ever begin to investigate the cover up by the Obama administration that has ensued so the American people will not not knowe the truth before the elections. I know one thing though...when Romney is elected President his first foreign relation move won't be a Middle East apology tour trting to get those zealots bent on our destruction to like us more. Obama is a total empty suit as was shown so obvious in last weeks debate.

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lawstarOct. 8, 12 7:54 AM

Telling the truth about the sorry state of our foreign affairs and the death of our ambassador and subsequent coverup is not an "attack."

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ninetyninerOct. 8, 1211:05 AM

I'll take a president who thinks first and then proceeds over a bloviating monarch who has to be confrontational all the time. The foreign policy of GW Bush was a disaster and we cannot financially afford the neocon ideology of endless war in the middle east. The foreign policy of Romney is a continuation of GW Bush's policies and we sure as heck don't need that!!

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roadtoruinOct. 8, 12 2:46 PM

Three words for you.... Bhengazi cover up. This alone is more then enough to sink Obama on any debate regarding foreign policy.

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