Mitt Romney: A New Course for the Middle East

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WSJ:

Restore the three sinews of American influence: our economic strength, our military strength and the strength of our values.

Mitt Romney

9/30/12

 

Disturbing developments are sweeping across the greater Middle East. In Syria, tens of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has come to power, and the country's peace treaty with Israel hangs in the balance. In Libya, our ambassador was murdered in a terrorist attack. U.S. embassies throughout the region have been stormed in violent protests. And in Iran, the ayatollahs continue to move full tilt toward nuclear-weapons capability, all the while promising to annihilate Israel.

 

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By failing to maintain the elements of our influence and by stepping away from our allies, President Obama has heightened the prospect of conflict and instability. He does not understand that an American policy that lacks resolve can provoke aggression and encourage disorder.

 

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*Our challenges are different now, but if the 21st century is to be another American Century, we need leaders who understand that keeping the peace requires American strength in all of its dimensions.

 

 

 

 

 

*Disagree, the the challenges today are not fundamentally different than the ones we faced in WWII or the Post war world. How (or if we) respond may be different but the enemy remains to the same.