I'd like to play Devil's Advocate for just a minute

He's incompetent.

had a President so successful in foreign policy.

I doubt he even knows what continent Syria is in. Hell, Bush thought AFRICA was a country. Why the fuck can't the GOP come up with candidates who know their ass from a hole in the ground?

you can get to the Black Sea. Another right gets you to the Caspian Sea. So there is some clarification needed here.

Edited to say right instead of left.

"Iran has two ways to the sea, BUT Governor Romney didn't specify which sea, so he MAY have meant the Mediterranean sea."

Half-true.

and Syria has lots of citrus



Thanks for the thread, KansDem.

Iran has a water route to the suez and the suez connects to the mediterranean.

Don't have the link handy, but he has made the same point before.

which in context with the "only ally" remark means it's nonsense; at least one other country would also need to be an ally.

However, if you're posturing to be President and badly want to do something like, say, put troops back on the ground in, oh let's say a country rather like Iraq, as a base to attack another country (not that we know anyone who wants to do that...), you could maybe lay groundwork by saying the big country on one side of Iraq only needs to cross Iraq to get to another country who is their ally (and coincidentally not popular in the U.S. right now), and would then have a route to the sea... a statement like that might make sense in that light. But of course none of our candidates would want to do such a thing, now would they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Iran_War

Half a million soldiers dead, many civilians also, as usual in these kind of things.