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Analysis: Romney Offers Sharp Critique of Obama's Foreign Policy

Summers Wrote: Oct 08, 2012 7:17 PM
Let's see, foreign policy...looking up the idiocy of doing the opposite of what should be done. What happened to the days when we just went out and killed the leader of a country and sorted it out from there? How about Patrice Lamumba? We killed him. Then Carter said that wasn't a nice way to conduct foreign policy. Hey, would we be twisting around with Chavez if we had outed him? Instead, we have armed drug cartels in Honduras, Colombia and Venezuela with Operation Castaway.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered a serious and forceful foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute earlier today, criticizing the atrophy of American influence and alliances over the last four years, and emphasizing the importance of clear-eyed American leadership in the world.  Greg has already flagged one of Romney's more memorable lines, "hope is not a strategy," but there were a number of additional passages worth underlining:


(1) As I discussed earlier, the candidate turned up the heat on the administration over its calamitous handling of the Benghazi attacks, making brief mention of...

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