But beyond his critique of Mr. Obama as failing to project American strength abroad, Mr. Romney has yet to fill in many of the details of how he would conduct policy toward the rest of the world, or to resolve deep ideological rifts within the Republican Party and his own foreign policy team. It is a disparate and politely fractious team of advisers that includes warring tribes of neoconservatives, traditional strong-defense conservatives and a band of self-described “realists” who believe there are limits to the degree the United States can impose its will. – Romney Strives to Stand Apart in Global Policy
THE SPEECH is set to define the Romney Doctrine.
MITT ROMNEY DELIVERS FOREIGN POLICY ADDRESS TO THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
Boston, MA – Mitt Romney today delivered an address on foreign policy, titled “The Mantle of Leadership” to the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. The following remarks were prepared for delivery:
I particularly appreciate the introduction from my good friend and tireless campaign companion, Gov. Bob McDonnell. He is showing what conservative leadership can do to build a stronger economy. Thank you also Congressman Goodlatte for joining us today. And particular thanks to Gen. Peay. I appreciate your invitation to be with you today at the Virginia Military Institute. It is a great privilege to be here at an Institution that has done so much for our nation, both in war and in peace.
For more than 170 years, VMI has done more than educate students. It has guided their transformation into citizens, and warriors, and leaders. VMI graduates have served with honor in our nation’s defense, just as many are doing today in Afghanistan and other lands. Since the September 11th attacks, many of VMI’s sons and daughters have defended America, and I mourn with you the 15 brave souls who have been lost. I join you in praying for the many VMI graduates and all Americans who are now serving in harm’s way. May God bless all who serve, and all who have served.
Of all the VMI graduates, none is more distinguished than George Marshall—the Chief of Staff of the Army who became Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, who helped to vanquish fascism and then planned Europe’s rescue from despair. His commitment to peace was born of his direct knowledge of the awful costs and consequences of war.
General Marshall once said, “The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.” Those words were true in his time—and they still echo in ours.
Last month, our nation was attacked again. A U.S. Ambassador and three of our fellow Americans are dead—murdered in Benghazi, Libya. Among the dead were three veterans. All of them were fine men, on a mission of peace and friendship to a nation that dearly longs for both. President Obama has said that Ambassador Chris Stevens and his colleagues represented the best of America. And he is right. We all mourn their loss.
The attacks against us in Libya were not an isolated incident. They were accompanied by anti-American riots in nearly two dozen other countries, mostly in the Middle East, but also in Africa and Asia. Our embassies have been attacked. Our flag has been burned. Many of our citizens have been threatened and driven from their overseas homes by vicious mobs, shouting “Death to America.” These mobs hoisted the black banner of Islamic extremism over American embassies on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
As the dust settles, as the murdered are buried, Americans are asking how this happened, how the threats we face have grown so much worse, and what this calls on America to do. These are the right questions. And I have come here today to offer a larger perspective on these tragic recent events—and to share with you, and all Americans, my vision for a freer, more prosperous, and more peaceful world.
The attacks on America last month should not be seen as random acts. They are expressions of a larger struggle that is playing out across the broader Middle East—a region that is now in the midst of the most profound upheaval in a century. And the fault lines of this struggle can be seen clearly in Benghazi itself.
The attack on our Consulate in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012 was likely the work of forces affiliated with those that attacked our homeland on September 11th, 2001. This latest assault cannot be blamed on a reprehensible video insulting Islam, despite the Administration’s attempts to convince us of that for so long. No, as the Administration has finally conceded, these attacks were the deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose their dark ideology on others, especially women and girls; who are fighting to control much of the Middle East today; and who seek to wage perpetual war on the West.
We saw all of this in Benghazi last month—but we also saw something else, something hopeful. After the attack on our Consulate, tens of thousands of Libyans, most of them young people, held a massive protest in Benghazi against the very extremists who murdered our people. They waved signs that read, “The Ambassador was Libya’s friend” and “Libya is sorry.” They chanted “No to militias.” They marched, unarmed, to the terrorist compound. Then they burned it to the ground. As one Libyan woman said, “We are not going to go from darkness to darkness.”
This is the struggle that is now shaking the entire Middle East to its foundation. It is the struggle of millions and millions of people—men and women, young and old, Muslims, Christians and non-believers—all of whom have had enough of the darkness. It is a struggle for the dignity that comes with freedom, and opportunity, and the right to live under laws of our own making. It is a struggle that has unfolded under green banners in the streets of Iran, in the public squares of Tunisia and Egypt and Yemen, and in the fights for liberty in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Libya, and now Syria. In short, it is a struggle between liberty and tyranny, justice and oppression, hope and despair.
We have seen this struggle before. It would be familiar to George Marshall. In his time, in the ashes of world war, another critical part of the world was torn between democracy and despotism. Fortunately, we had leaders of courage and vision, both Republicans and Democrats, who knew that America had to support friends who shared our values, and prevent today’s crises from becoming tomorrow’s conflicts.
Statesmen like Marshall rallied our nation to rise to its responsibilities as the leader of the free world. We helped our friends to build and sustain free societies and free markets. We defended our friends, and ourselves, from our common enemies. We led. And though the path was long and uncertain, the thought of war in Europe is as inconceivable today as it seemed inevitable in the last century.
This is what makes America exceptional: It is not just the character of our country—it is the record of our accomplishments. America has a proud history of strong, confident, principled global leadership—a history that has been written by patriots of both parties. That is America at its best. And it is the standard by which we measure every President, as well as anyone who wishes to be President. Unfortunately, this President’s policies have not been equal to our best examples of world leadership. And nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East.
I want to be very clear: The blame for the murder of our people in Libya, and the attacks on our embassies in so many other countries, lies solely with those who carried them out—no one else. But it is the responsibility of our President to use America’s great power to shape history—not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events. Unfortunately, that is exactly where we find ourselves in the Middle East under President Obama.
The relationship between the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel, our closest ally in the region, has suffered great strains. The President explicitly stated that his goal was to put “daylight” between the United States and Israel. And he has succeeded. This is a dangerous situation that has set back the hope of peace in the Middle East and emboldened our mutual adversaries, especially Iran.
Iran today has never been closer to a nuclear weapons capability. It has never posed a greater danger to our friends, our allies, and to us. And it has never acted less deterred by America, as was made clear last year when Iranian agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in our nation’s capital. And yet, when millions of Iranians took to the streets in June of 2009, when they demanded freedom from a cruel regime that threatens the world, when they cried out, “Are you with us, or are you with them?”—the American President was silent.
Across the greater Middle East, as the joy born from the downfall of dictators has given way to the painstaking work of building capable security forces, and growing economies, and developing democratic institutions, the President has failed to offer the tangible support that our partners want and need.
In Iraq, the costly gains made by our troops are being eroded by rising violence, a resurgent Al-Qaeda, the weakening of democracy in Baghdad, and the rising influence of Iran. And yet, America’s ability to influence events for the better in Iraq has been undermined by the abrupt withdrawal of our entire troop presence. The President tried—and failed—to secure a responsible and gradual drawdown that would have better secured our gains.
The President has failed to lead in Syria, where more than 30,000 men, women, and children have been massacred by the Assad regime over the past 20 months. Violent extremists are flowing into the fight. Our ally Turkey has been attacked. And the conflict threatens stability in the region.
America can take pride in the blows that our military and intelligence professionals have inflicted on Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including the killing of Osama bin Laden. These are real achievements won at a high cost. But Al-Qaeda remains a strong force in Yemen and Somalia, in Libya and other parts of North Africa, in Iraq, and now in Syria. And other extremists have gained ground across the region. Drones and the modern instruments of war are important tools in our fight, but they are no substitute for a national security strategy for the Middle East.
The President is fond of saying that “The tide of war is receding.” And I want to believe him as much as anyone. But when we look at the Middle East today—with Iran closer than ever to nuclear weapons capability, with the conflict in Syria threating to destabilize the region, with violent extremists on the march, and with an American Ambassador and three others dead likely at the hands of Al-Qaeda affiliates— it is clear that the risk of conflict in the region is higher now than when the President took office.
I know the President hopes for a safer, freer, and a more prosperous Middle East allied with the United States. I share this hope. But hope is not a strategy. We cannot support our friends and defeat our enemies in the Middle East when our words are not backed up by deeds, when our defense spending is being arbitrarily and deeply cut, when we have no trade agenda to speak of, and the perception of our strategy is not one of partnership, but of passivity.
The greater tragedy of it all is that we are missing an historic opportunity to win new friends who share our values in the Middle East—friends who are fighting for their own futures against the very same violent extremists, and evil tyrants, and angry mobs who seek to harm us. Unfortunately, so many of these people who could be our friends feel that our President is indifferent to their quest for freedom and dignity. As one Syrian woman put it, “We will not forget that you forgot about us.”
It is time to change course in the Middle East. That course should be organized around these bedrock principles: America must have confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose and resolve in our might. No friend of America will question our commitment to support them… no enemy that attacks America will question our resolve to defeat them… and no one anywhere, friend or foe, will doubt America’s capability to back up our words.
I will put the leaders of Iran on notice that the United States and our friends and allies will prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons capability. I will not hesitate to impose new sanctions on Iran, and will tighten the sanctions we currently have. I will restore the permanent presence of aircraft carrier task forces in both the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf region—and work with Israel to increase our military assistance and coordination. For the sake of peace, we must make clear to Iran through actions—not just words—that their nuclear pursuit will not be tolerated.
I will reaffirm our historic ties to Israel and our abiding commitment to its security—the world must never see any daylight between our two nations.
I will deepen our critical cooperation with our partners in the Gulf.
And I will roll back President Obama’s deep and arbitrary cuts to our national defense that would devastate our military. I will make the critical defense investments that we need to remain secure. The decisions we make today will determine our ability to protect America tomorrow. The first purpose of a strong military is to prevent war.
The size of our Navy is at levels not seen since 1916. I will restore our Navy to the size needed to fulfill our missions by building 15 ships per year, including three submarines. I will implement effective missile defenses to protect against threats. And on this, there will be no flexibility with Vladimir Putin. And I will call on our NATO allies to keep the greatest military alliance in history strong by honoring their commitment to each devote 2 percent of their GDP to security spending. Today, only 3 of the 28 NATO nations meet this benchmark.
I will make further reforms to our foreign assistance to create incentives for good governance, free enterprise, and greater trade, in the Middle East and beyond. I will organize all assistance efforts in the greater Middle East under one official with responsibility and accountability to prioritize efforts and produce results. I will rally our friends and allies to match our generosity with theirs. And I will make it clear to the recipients of our aid that, in return for our material support, they must meet the responsibilities of every decent modern government—to respect the rights of all of their citizens, including women and minorities… to ensure space for civil society, a free media, political parties, and an independent judiciary… and to abide by their international commitments to protect our diplomats and our property.
I will champion free trade and restore it as a critical element of our strategy, both in the Middle East and across the world. The President has not signed one new free trade agreement in the past four years. I will reverse that failure. I will work with nations around the world that are committed to the principles of free enterprise, expanding existing relationships and establishing new ones.
I will support friends across the Middle East who share our values, but need help defending them and their sovereignty against our common enemies.
In Libya, I will support the Libyan people’s efforts to forge a lasting government that represents all of them, and I will vigorously pursue the terrorists who attacked our consulate in Benghazi and killed Americans.
In Egypt, I will use our influence—including clear conditions on our aid—to urge the new government to represent all Egyptians, to build democratic institutions, and to maintain its peace treaty with Israel. And we must persuade our friends and allies to place similar stipulations on their aid.
In Syria, I will work with our partners to identify and organize those members of the opposition who share our values and ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks, helicopters, and fighter jets. Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them. We should be working no less vigorously with our international partners to support the many Syrians who would deliver that defeat to Iran—rather than sitting on the sidelines. It is essential that we develop influence with those forces in Syria that will one day lead a country that sits at the heart of the Middle East.
And in Afghanistan, I will pursue a real and successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. President Obama would have you believe that anyone who disagrees with his decisions in Afghanistan is arguing for endless war. But the route to more war – and to potential attacks here at home – is a politically timed retreat that abandons the Afghan people to the same extremists who ravaged their country and used it to launch the attacks of 9/11. I will evaluate conditions on the ground and weigh the best advice of our military commanders. And I will affirm that my duty is not to my political prospects, but to the security of the nation.
Finally, I will recommit America to the goal of a democratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel. On this vital issue, the President has failed, and what should be a negotiation process has devolved into a series of heated disputes at the United Nations. In this old conflict, as in every challenge we face in the Middle East, only a new President will bring the chance to begin anew.
There is a longing for American leadership in the Middle East—and it is not unique to that region. It is broadly felt by America’s friends and allies in other parts of the world as well— in Europe, where Putin’s Russia casts a long shadow over young democracies, and where our oldest allies have been told we are “pivoting” away from them … in Asia and across the Pacific, where China’s recent assertiveness is sending chills through the region … and here in our own hemisphere, where our neighbors in Latin America want to resist the failed ideology of Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers and deepen ties with the United States on trade, energy, and security. But in all of these places, just as in the Middle East, the question is asked: “Where does America stand?”
I know many Americans are asking a different question: “Why us?” I know many Americans are asking whether our country today—with our ailing economy, and our massive debt, and after 11 years at war—is still capable of leading.
I believe that if America does not lead, others will—others who do not share our interests and our values—and the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us. America’s security and the cause of freedom cannot afford four more years like the last four years. I am running for President because I believe the leader of the free world has a duty, to our citizens, and to our friends everywhere, to use America’s great influence—wisely, with solemnity and without false pride, but also firmly and actively—to shape events in ways that secure our interests, further our values, prevent conflict, and make the world better—not perfect, but better.
Our friends and allies across the globe do not want less American leadership. They want more—more of our moral support, more of our security cooperation, more of our trade, and more of our assistance in building free societies and thriving economies. So many people across the world still look to America as the best hope of humankind. So many people still have faith in America. We must show them that we still have faith in ourselves—that we have the will and the wisdom to revive our stagnant economy, to roll back our unsustainable debt, to reform our government, to reverse the catastrophic cuts now threatening our national defense, to renew the sources of our great power, and to lead the course of human events.
Sir Winston Churchill once said of George Marshall: “He … always fought victoriously against defeatism, discouragement, and disillusion.” That is the role our friends want America to play again. And it is the role we must play.
The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.
The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America’s torch alone. But it is America’s duty – and honor – to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Doncha just LOVE when the yelloe elephant,chickenhawks who hid out in a Castle in France when they had the chance to fight in the war THEY supported talk all tough and stuff about all the military stuff they will do…but THEIR sons won’t go and fight?
They have other priorities.
Sorry, but so few people know members of the military serving it doesn’t make a dent.
On policy prescriptions like unloading military weaponry inside Syria, that’s another point altogether.
Maybe we’ll see my cousin home for Christmas. He had his tour extended in Afghanistan for another 3 months. He’s 59. He stays because he feels his men need him. I’m proud of him as are the rest of my family but we are also fearful that we may never see him again. This is a guy who already did 4 tours in Iraq, saw his buddy killed in front of him and narrowly missed having his head blown off. He thought Iraq was the armpit of the world. Afghanistan, he says, is like being in the stone age. Oh yeah, we paid for his bullet proof vest. We just want him to come home.
Yeah, we live amid military here in Alexandria.
Home for Christmas, let’s hope.
To sum up: We are surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us because we are such good and merciful people; therefore, we must spend all our material and human treasure building and selling weapons, killing and maiming our young, destabilizing other cultures and making the military / industrial complex more powerful than ever while also enriching the likes of the Koch brothers.
And with this http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/10/2012108133825697507.html going on Obama better start pressing Mitt for answers. God knows the press is not going press Mittens of his vaporware candidacy.
With the Turks returning tit for tat artillery exchanges with Syria and with Iran and Saudi Arabia using Syria as a proxy war and with Israel always lurking in background with the Palestinians even further in the shadows the whole Levant is hotting up.
I remember how the Lebanese civil war caused all kinds of issues for Ronald Regan and others. I remember how inattention to the facts on the ground and piss poor planing cause the deaths of over 300 Marines. I Remember Saint Ronny Ray-Gun tucking tale and leaving Lebanon, letting the terrorists chalk up a win.
Syria is nothing but bad news for all concerned. What is worse is that it is likely that both candidates will be mouthing platitudes and bromides that fail to address what is fast becoming a firestorm and tragedy. What is Mitt’s or Barack’s plan / policy if (more likely when) Syria and Turkey slip into a further military exchanges? What’s the plan when this thing gets a whole lot nastier?
What is Mitt’s or Barack’s plan / policy if (more likely when) Syria and Turkey slip into a further military exchanges?
There is absolutely nothing the US, no matter who is elected, can do in the event of this widening. Erdogan certainly won’t back down, no leader could.
What Romney and the “freedom agenda” folks don’t get is that unleashing democracy has short-term consequences that mean one thing, while the long-term impact of independence always tilts toward the people. How long that takes is another story entirely.
It also doesn’t mean women and girls won’t suffer in the meantime.
As for Turkey, you are correct. Erdogan is going to defend the sovereign territory of his nation, period, end of discussion, have a nice day. What i worry about are the knock on effects. I can’t help myself, I worry about a “damn fool thing” happening in the Levant that leads to a major catastrophe.
Anyone who has read Barbara Tuchman’s “Guns Of August” understands how a “damn fool thing” can lead to a history shattering event. Please note that all the major powers / players on the world stage have leaders who barely rise to the level of mediocrity; not good. Zooming in on the sorry choice we are presented for leadership of our nation I truly fear for the nation.
There are too many similar historical threads coming together Taylor: weak leadership, economic hardship / bad times, hegemonic power conflict, a destabilized geographic area, ethic rivalries, religious animosities, venial local authorities, plus the detritus of colonialism.
The whole Levant is a powder keg. Even if Obama or Romney do nothing, which is the only real option viz the Turkey / Syria border clash, they may still have a hot war to deal with in the area. What will Barack do? It is not a problem that he can throw drones at. What will Willard do? It not a problem that NeoCon word salads can address.
I worry Taylor, the Levant is a red-hot danger zone going critical and I do not see a Bismarckian leader anywhere in sight; not in the US, Not in NATO, not in Russia, not in China. What is see is the situation on the ground in 1914, a bunch of clueless elites blundering into a epic shattering conflict.
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* I worry Taylor, the Levant is a red-hot danger zone going critical and I do not see a Bismarckian leader anywhere in sight; not in the US, Not in NATO, not in Russia, not in China. What I see is the situation on the ground in 1914, a bunch of clueless elites blundering into a epic shattering conflict.
Taylor,
I am really concerned about what is going on in Syria. This is no time or place for fools or mountebanks to be in the wheel house of power. This is an area that is chock-a-block full of tiger pits and bear traps just waiting to be sprung. With great power players like China and Russia in the mix, plus all the local powers jostling around the chances for an epic foreign policy disaster are excellent.
I especially do not like how Turkey’s sovereign territory is being so casually violated by the Syrians. The Turks are very prickly about the integrity of their borders. Plus with the Kurds being essentially set loose by Syria, Turkey gets on more jumbo sized headache to deal with. The Turks are already really unhappy about Kurdish Iraq, with a de facto Kurdish Syria now in the mix the Turks can not be pleased. Kurdish Syria just became another playground for the KPP scamper around in.
Man, this is on huge can of angry scorpions dumped on our lap. Will anyone be willing to talk to the US people like adults on this matter? Not bloody likely.
We should all be concerned about Syria. Reading the news is overwhelming.
The Turks should be “prickly about their borders.” Erdogan has already said that if the Syrians push he’ll get more and worse.
What is going on in Syria has the potential for becoming a conflict that drags in the super powers and plunges this world into catastrophe. It’s becoming untenable in Syria if what Al Jazeera is reporting is on the mark and I have no reason to believe otherwise.
I’m not one who signs on to “plunges the world into catastrophe” on regional calamities, no matter how bad.
The Arab Spring is undoing centuries of stasis. What else can be expected?
The world is changing in places that need to break apart before they can find the way through to some semblance of modernity.
spincitysd October 8, 2012 at 12:29 pm # And with this http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/10/2012108133825697507.html going on Obama better start pressing Mitt for answers.
Yes, I guess that would be a good thing to do when one has already evidenced not having any POTUS answers of his own.
However, rather than worry about what Romney might do 4 months from now, may be he would actually be better off asking what the Saudis and Qataris are planning to do right now since Obama agreed to let them be in charge.
CO
You forgot the Iranians, and the Russians, and the Chinese. Drop your ideological blinders and pay attention; this not a Blue / Red issue, this is a disaster waiting to happen because neither man, Romney nor Obama, have the mental landscape to deal with the issues on the ground.
Romney is being lead by the nose by the NeoCon propeller-heads that insisted on invading Iraq. Obama is yet again playing the Prince of Denmark. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Iranians and the Saudis are continuing the 1500 year plus Sunni-Shia blood feud for fun and profit.
Also, don’t forget the warping and twisting the area received by the former Colonial rules Britain and France, plus the further distortions imposed on the area by the Cold War. It’s a big soup sandwich CO and neither Obama nor Romney seem to have any real clues. Obama has three years of questionable OJT and Mitt has only his history as a corporate raider to back him up.
I see nothing in Romney’s CV that indicate he has the remotest clue of how to handle foreign policy. All I’ve seen is Mitt screwing the pooch on what should have been the simplest of grip and grin junkets. Seriously CO, how does a Republican piss off our British allies, a Tory government no less, so quickly and profoundly? That was breath taking, and not in a good way.
Mock Obama all you want CO, but Romney is not a realistic alternative. If Mitt believes his boilerplate, then we are big trouble. If he doesn’t believe in his boilerplate, then it is the betrayal of US public just as bad–possibly worse–than Obama’s.
The Saudis are always involved and I don’t mean that in a negative sense, either.
This is just another presidential challenger talking about how we’re not being “kept safe” by the current President. Ever since the “Missile Gap”, we’ve been plagued with this nonsense. I wish voters would grow memories long enough to realize that they’ve heard all this before, but that’s clearly not happening. Too bad. We could use some serious discussion right about now.
The Levant and the Mahgreb aren’t looking too peachy right now. We and Europe are headed for another whopping recession, and all we seem to want to do is apply more voodoo. Oh, and China’s been busy becoming the industrial giant we used to be, on the way to becoming the military power we are now.
Someone with some brains would be welcome in foreign policy discussions. Unfortunately, all we seem to hear from are the chickenhawks and the opportunists.
“chickenhawks and … opportunists” knave and fools Cujo359. I do not like where this is all headed. The whole global structure is being lead by selfish elites whose only concern is the accumulation of more wealth and power to the detriment of everything else.
Also remember China is now suffering a downturn of its own. It is hard to be an export economy when your customers are going broke Cujo359. Isn’t austerity wonderful?
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It is hard to be an export economy when your customers are going broke Cujo359.
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Like Japan before them, they’ll have to learn how to grow domestic demand for their products. That means developing a bigger middle class, I suppose, but as events have proved here, that’s no obstacle to retaining power.
Ever since the “Missile Gap”, we’ve been plagued with this nonsense.
Oh, I love this.
Oh and there is this little gem to consider:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/10/201210814353196525.html
And Afghanistan was Senator Obama’s “good war” as opposed to Iraq which he was able to tar HRC on because of the vote, which Obama in office did exactly what HRC would have done, which was to continue the Bushite war of choice in Iraq. Anyway Afghanistan is now (and always has been) Barack’s Jolly Little War which looks to end in tears.
Plus there is the whole South China Sea conflict over tiny little islands between China, the PI, Vietnam, Taiwan and Japan to consider. And wait, wait, there is the Indo-Pakistan conflict, the Horn Of Africa and various issues south of the border that are nipping at our heals.
Remind me Taylor why any sane man would want the office of president, I’m a little hazy on concept.
For those not blessed with short memories, Karzai sounds like Afghan for “Thieu“.
Nicely played Cujo359.
For those not blessed with short memories, Karzai sounds like Afghan for “Thieu“.
Sweet Jesus. If only we had that reach anymore, in duplicity and vengeance for screwing us.
spincitysd October 8, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Remind me Taylor why any sane man would want the office of president, I’m a little hazy on concept.
It’s good being king?
Everyone outside the kingdom you can kill.