OPINION: Republicans, in Search of a Foreign Policy

MITT ROMNEY stuck fast to his foreign-policy playbook in his acceptance speech Thursday night — sloganeering about American exceptionalism, sneering at President Obamas record on Iran and Israel, and obscuring his own lack of new ideas. He said he would “honor Americas democratic ideals because a free world is a more peaceful world and he praised the “bipartisan foreign policy legacy of Truman and Reagan, but said nothing specific about how he would follow in their footsteps.