Romney proposes new sanctions on Iran, new help for Syrian rebels
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivers a foreign policy speech at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., Oct. 8, 2012.
/ AP Photo/Charles DharapakLEXINGTON, Va. Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Monday accused President Obama of "passive" leadership in the Middle East in a foreign-policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute. "Hope is not a strategy," the Republican nominee said, attacking the president's 2008 campaign slogan of "hope and change."
Romney called for more direct intervention in Syria, including making sure anti-government opposition forces have weapons. And while he emphasized that the responsibility for the murder of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, lies solely with those who carried out the attack, Romney also criticized the Obama administration for its initial focus on an anti-Islamic video as the trigger for the attack.
The renewed focus on foreign policy comes after several weeks of unrest in the Middle East resulting in widespread protests, attacks on multiple American embassies, and the deadly attacks in Benghzai. Romney called the recent attacks "expressions of a larger struggle that is playing out across the broader Middle East" and argue for changing course in the region.
Romney, who has little foreign policy experience on his resume, has been criticized for some of his previous statements on international affairs. An overseas trip he took in July was largely overshadowed by negative reaction to comments he made about England's lack of preparation for the Olympics and a perceived slight of Palestinians, whom he implied were culturally inferior to their Jewish neighbors. He took heat for an inaccurate, premature attack on the Obama administration as events were unfolding in Libya. Most recently, he offended Spanish leaders when he said in the debate that he doesn't want the U.S. to "go down the path of Spain."
The VMI speech gave Romney an opportunity to make "voters comfortable with Romney as commander in chief," said Republican strategist and former McCain adviser Ford O'Connell. He pointed to a recent Gallup poll that shows Obama with higher foreign policy approval ratings than Romney and said the goal of the speech is also to "close that gap a little bit."
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That's good, I'm going to use it instead of "ping" or "pong".
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 - Because even a poor man has a right to live.
DJ, people have a right to receive healthcare. They dont have a right to force someone else to pay for it.
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On that logic, you don't have a right to ask me to pay to have people in Afghanistan killed! You don't have a right to ask me to pay for Oil Companies subsidies! You don't have a right to ask me to pay for things I don't want!
But that logic doesn't WORK Mortar - because once you pay your taxes the money is no longer YOURS and MINE - it becomes the United States Government's money and they need to think of the common good - not just what some teapartier out there wants!
I came back to see how it was going and looks like CBS is acting up AGAIN!! GRRRR
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I thought they were gonna get this time and date thing fixed - but doesn't look like it! : /
DAMMIT CBS!!! : (
Your name pops up and all that anger just disappears! : )
Although service members have their health care needs covered by the military, the state of national health care is important to an Air Force technical sergeant at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.
"I grew up in a low-income family that never had health care," the airman said. "You waited until you were extremely sick, and then my mother would take us to an emergency room.
"I'm in favor of everyone having health care," he said, adding that the Obama administration's health care plan may not be "the best one out there, but it's better than nothing."
Adolph Hitler and Mengele and all the ugliest hearted people ever to exist look at you, Dancing-in-the-streets, and shake their heads in amazement at your ugliness!
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There is no need to insult Zann, regardless of the fact that you can't beat her point. Take some personal responsibility for your lack of debate skills.
Wow. Lindag, that IS the perfect solution!
As well, we have many more "swimmers" at that point...
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Ya know there is a chance that God intended for pregnancies to happen at that time of our lives - when we're YOUNG!! And that maybe...just maybe, our society is WRONG about demonizing young people for getting pregnant!
One of the reasons we are genetically engineered that way is to be better able to care for the children.