August 05, 2007

Cover Your Ears, Mitt Romney's Talking Foreign Policy

There are days when my belief that Romney is the most likely Republican nominee for president in 2008 chills me. This is one of those days. I mean does this bit from this morning's debate on This Week make sense to you?

"I think Obama is confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies," Romney said. "We keep our options quiet. We don't go out to say to a nation that's working with us that we intend to go in there and bring on a unilateral attack," said Romney. "The only people who can defeat radical jihadists are Muslims themselves."

I suppose the first bit is sort of understandable given the vast sums of money and kind words the Bush administration has showered on Pakistan for the last 6 years. But just because the Bush administration treats the nation that in all likelihood contains the leadership of Al Qaeda and has signed a peace treaty that has greatly strengthed the Taliban and Taliban allies in Afghanistan as an ally, well, that doesn't necessarily make them an ally. And as to the latter bit about only the Muslims being able to defeat the radical jihadists - well there's a lot to that actually, but doesn't it completely contradict Romney's stated positions on the war on Iraq and the Global War on Terror? This is hardly the first occasion on which Romney has seemed not ready for primetime when it comes to foreign policy. Can't his campaign lock him away for 72 hours with George Shultz or somebody who can teach him the basics? Because answers like these are getting rather nerve-wracking.

For the record, Giuliani disagreed with Romney and appeared to go further than Obama has on the Pakistan issue. He said we should keep the option of invading them on the table.

Posted by armand at August 5, 2007 11:20 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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