What Is Romney's Afghanistan Policy?

Mitt Romney at 2012 CPAC. Wikimedia

Top Senators Can't Explain Romney's Afghanistan Policy -- Josh Rogin, The Cable/Foreign Policy

Republican candidate Mitt Romney's policy on the future of U.S.-led war in Afghanistan war is unclear and confusing, complicating attempts to either support or criticize it during the campaign, according to leading senators from both parties.

On Romney's website, the campaign criticizes President Barack Obama for announcing a "timetable" for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and accuses the administration of placing politics over the advice of military commanders by withdrawing 30,000 surge troops by September.

"Gov. Romney supports the 2014 timetable as a realistic timetable and a residual force post-2014. But he would not have announced that timetable publicly, as President Obama did, as doing so encourages the Taliban to wait us out and our allies to hedge their bets," a Romney campaign spokesperson told The Cable.

But when it comes to what a President Romney would do differently from Obama on Afghanistan if and when he became president, the details remain sketchy.

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My Comment: I follow American politics very closely .... and even I do not know (specifically) what Republican Presidential candidate Romney's position on Afghanistan is. It's good that he will listen to the commanders .... but in the end it is he who will make policy, and that policy is still unknown. For what it's worth, on his website they outline the following Afghan position.

Sighhh .... this is the problem when you have a candidate who keeps his convictions and political philosophy to himself .... especially on issues that involve foreign affairs .... you are left guessing.