Tuesday
Oct092012
U.S. Politics Analysis: Is the World Less Safe under Obama, and Could Mitt Romney do Any Better?
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 12:23 | James Miller in EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, US Foreign Policy, US Politics
National Public Radio recaps the key points from Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute
A real criticism of Barack Obama might be that he did not change enough. He has continued and escalated the drone war, has surged in Afghanistan, has not reset the diplomatic situation with Iran or North Korea, and has not closed Guantanamo Bay.
But Romney is not challenging any of this, because he is likely to support these measures, albeit in private rather in public statements. Instead, he is pursuing the verbal trickery of turning a "hawkish" Obama into a dove.
Whether that is effective politics, time will tell. But no one should mistake it for a realistic view of US politics.
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