Headline Roundup • October 8th, 2012
Mitt’s View on Foreign Policy
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NPR (Online News)
Republican Mitt Romney said Monday the risk of conflict in the Middle East "is higher now" than it was when President Obama took office. He proposed that the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria and claimed Obama's withdrawal of troops from Iraq has jeopardized U.S. interests.
Declaring that "it's time to change course in the Middle East" and accusing Obama of "passivity," the Republican presidential nominee called for the U.S. to work with other countries to arm the Syrian rebels to help them defeat President Bashar Assad's "tanks,...
Washington Times
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that President Obama has embraced a passive foreign policy that retreats from the bipartisan consensus that has governed for generations, and said that under Mr. Obama the United States no longer shapes events on the global stage.
Speaking at the Virginia Military Institute, Mr. Romney said in his campaign’s first major address on foreign policy that the world wants a strong America to underpin a stable world order, but he said with Mr. Obama in the White House, U.S. allies have been left...
Wall Street Journal (News)
Mitt Romney called for the U.S. to play a more active role in shaping the new governments sprouting from the Arab Spring, but he offered few details on how he would meet that challenge if he were president.
"It is time to change course in the Middle East," the Republican presidential nominee said in a speech Monday at the Virginia Military Institute. "The president has failed to offer the tangible support that our partners want and need."
