Monday, October 8, 2012

Can The Pentagon Deliver Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy And National Security Goals



Pentagon Implications As Romney Argues Middle East No Better Than Four Years Ago -- Kevin Baron, E-Ring/Foreign Policy

Mitt Romney, with the presidential election entering the home stretch, delivered a heavily-promoted foreign policy address in which he called for a larger military that is more robustly deployed in the Middle East and more aggressively postured to check Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Romney slammed President Obama’s Middle East policies on Monday as passively indifferent to the people fighting for democracy, showing no American leadership, and missing an historic opportunity to influence and win friends in the region.

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My Comment:
His policies and goals will be very expensive to achieve .... and in a fiscal world of trillion dollar deficits and an American public that has grown tired and weary of being involved in international conflicts .... I have some serious doubts that he and the Pentagon will be able to deliver.

1 comment:

D.Plowman said...

Good ol Romney, Bush would be proud...

I'm no fan of American intervention that goes on around the globe, but it sounds like Romney would step it up a few paces.