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Why Obama's Foreign Policy Free Ride Is Over

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October 10, 2012

Why Obama's Foreign Policy Free Ride Is Over

In a forceful and succinct speech on Monday at the Virginia Military Academy, Mitt Romney laid out the clear differences between his foreign policy views and those of President Obama. In actuality, he did much more than that. He demonstrated that between the two of them, only he understands the nature of the world we live in. Obama, starting with his apologetic speech in Cairo in 2009, has been guided by the notion that the force of his own personality and his Muslim ties, along with the pulling back of U.S. leadership from the international community would pacify radical Islamists and buy us credit in the streets of the world. This underlying assumption, as much as his fundamental faith in the effects of Keynesian economics, has proven to be tragically flawed.

The Short Extent of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Several months ago I wrote of my frustration that Obama had been given a pass on foreign policy decisions that were weakening us and endangering our country long-term. Everyone, including the Romney campaign, was fixated on the economy. The media had totally bought into the Obama narrative that Obama’s foreign policy was his “strong suit.” Obama’s domestic policy could be stated in one sentence – “General Motors is alive.” That “ policy” looked downright comprehensive compared to his foreign policy achievements – “Osama bin Laden is dead.”

After Romney’s speech, those days of collective myopia are now over. The attacks in Egypt and Libya on this year’s 9/11 were much like 9/11 ten years ago. While shocking, they were simply another reminder of some things we have known all along..

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- Fred Thompson

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