Romney Advisers: Romney Will Return To Foreign Policy Of Truman And Reagan

[DonViejo]

With turbulence in the Middle East and controversy surrounding the Obama administration’s response to the fatal attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Mitt Romney will outline Monday his foreign policy approach toward the Middle East in what his campaign is billing as a major address at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va.

The Romney campaign is stressing that the choice between President Obama and a Romney administration on foreign policy is stark. Romney will present a “bold choice between what we’ve seen these past four years and what he would bring in the next four years,” Alex Wong, foreign and legal policy director for the Romney campaign, told reporters on a conference call Sunday previewing the VMI speech.

The Romney campaign cast Obama as an outlier president who failed to continue a bipartisan tradition of a strong military and leadership in the world. Several times on the call, his advisers described Romney as following a tradition that included Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton while President Obama’s approach, they said, was similar to Jimmy Carter’s. Romney’s approach is “a restoration of a strategy that served us well for over 70 years” and will renew a “bipartisan vision” of foreign policy, Wong said. “[Obama’s] foreign policy is marked by passivity, by delay and by indecision.”

According to excerpts of Romney’s speech released in advance, Romney will propose a new approach to both the crisis Syria and the post-Mubarak regime in Egypt, but will offer few other specifics that directly depart from the Obama administration’s policies for the region.

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[graham4anything]

1. The Japanese better hide, and Reagan slept while millions worldwide were killed by A.I.D.S.

Truman was one of the worst IMHO with what he did.

and it's real stupid that Mitt just reels off president's name, who are all different anyhow.

[Enrique]

2. so he will sell Iran weapons again?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. LOL

[KurtNYC]

3. So Romney is Don Quixote? Out tilting at the Soviet Union?

Romney "Resurrect Gorbachov and Tear down the rest of that wall!"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. "but will offer few other specifics that directly depart from the Obama administration’s policies"

IOW he will waste more of everybody's time criticizing President Obama but refuse to tell us how he will do things differently/better. Another, "trust me and I'll tell you what I plan to do once I'm elected."

[OKNancy]

6. Beirut n/t

[madrchsod]

12. reagan`s diplomacy during that war was undermined by bush and the cia

while that was going on bush and the cia were promising the other side a deal

[TroyD]

13. Yes, and they got away with it - as they always do

George H. W. Bush is a very evil man, and many people don't even know that.

[BootinUp]

7. Foreign policy of Truman?

Because the current situation is so similar to 1948?

[fugop]

8. I like the president word salad

Love how they toss in Clinton, who they HATED, and leave out Bush, who they drooled over.

[TroyD]

11. 'they leave out Bush'

And we have to make sure they don't get away with it!

And it's time that Obama & the DNC remind people that Bush & the Republican Party are HATED all over the World and that a Romney administration would just lead to more anger and hostility towards America abroad.

[liberal N proud]

9. Atomic bombs and Iran Contra!

Gee sounds like a plan. Bad one, but a plan.

[madrchsod]

10. jimmy carter put in place our justification for our military involvement of the gulf region

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

once again mittens is a lier

[JoePhilly]

14. His advisors are Bush administrations whack jobs.

[Donkees]

15. Obama Returns to White House in LANDSLIDE election!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Guess then his biggest concern will be Russia.

[Arneoker]

17. I make no bones about having been a strong anti-Communist Democrat.

I supported Scoop Jackson in the primaries in 1976. I thought that one of the few things Reagan was correct about was his policy with the Soviet Union. (Which included negotiating with them when the time was right.)

But unlike the neocons who are so nostalgic for the Cold War, I've managed to notice that it is over. Not that there aren't threats and evil forces out there for us (and others) to deal with. But the situation is simply not the same. History doesn't always offer up a big, evil superpower posing an existential threat to us. Yes, we went right from dealing with the Nazis to dealing with the Soviet Communists. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union there has simply been nothing to replace it. What has been offered as substitutes simply don't make sense.

I have no doubt that to the extent that Romney offers any good ideas, that the Obama Administration is already pursuing them. Where improvements could be made on what this Administration is doing, Romney will be not be talking about them. He will of course spew a lot of hot air, and likely insult some other country as part of his constant strutting of his machismo.

[treestar]

18. Not going to bother since it's subject to change by the time of the debate

or next week, and definitely subject to change in the unlikely event he gets in.

[bushisanidiot]

19. "More War Mitt" is who he is has morphed into now

rich, spoiled Romney doesn't care who dies, he will send our troops to war to protect his personal financial interests.