Mr. Mitt gave a foreign policy address today, at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. If presented as a term paper by one of the cadets in a political science, international relations, or similar course, the grade received would have been a gentleman’s C at best.
As has become his practice over the last week, Mr. Mitt reversed, contradicted, or significantly altered past positions on a variety of items. American involvement in Afghanistan has gone from it’s the Afghans’ problem a year ago to “retreat that abandons the Afghan people” would very likely lead to attacks within the United States. At one time in his meanderings over the Iraq war, Mr. Mitt sounded almost dovish, saying in effect that we wouldn’t have gone to war without the believe that Iraq had nuclear weapons. Now he sees the Iraq muddle as part of a “struggle between liberty and tyranny, justice and oppression, hope and despair.”
And as for Palestine, Mr. Mitt has gone from characterizing the Palestinians as the main obstacle to peace with Israel to a just give me the reins and we’ll have a democratic, prosperous Palestine living in peace with its neighbor.
As has been the case with his reversals on economic issues, Mr. Mitt offered little in the way of specifics for his new foreign policies. He just wants a stronger, more assertive America in the international arena. Such an America would apparently have no problem imposing its will. So matching the ill-defined goal with the lack of means to get there, we have what might be called George Bush Light, which is about as light as you can get.
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