Nothing like undercutting your own country's ability to negotiate.... Romney is a foreign policy disaster, and he is still just a candidate.
Nothing like taking the words of a diplomat from a foreign nation, who stands to gain from the re-election of Obama, since he can obviously gain more from Obama during negotiations, as a means of establishing what position OUR country should take... :roll:
How has Obama's relationship with Putin/Medvedev benefited the US? What have we gotten out of that relationship? What has Russia gotten out of that relationship? Who has come out on top in those negotiations? How does that relationship effect our relationship with other Eastern European nations, such as the Czech Rep, Poland, and the Ukraine (who were a few of the solid allies of ours that were willing to send troops to support the efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan)?
Putin is a street thug and a mobster, who has restled control of the Russian government with a nationalist re-armament policy, bent on asserting Russia's superiority in the world. They're not out to foster "peace" with the US. We supposedly already had peace... If the Russians have no designs on influencing Eastern Europe (our desperate allies and their former satellites), then they would prove so by having no problem with missile defense shields being in place... Have you ever really thought about why they would want the missile shields removed? It's because it benefits their military capabilities, and influence on all their neighbors. Putin has been directing massive oil profits into rebuilding the "Soviet" military (where his roots of influence have been)...
Obama's apology tour made a clear indication to Russia that Obama was sympathetic to their clause, and created the opportunity for them to take advantage of his weakness to gain that result...
Are you more concerned with what benefits Russia or what benefits the USA?
Are you too blind to realize Romney's position is more beneficial for US in that regard?
How about Obama's blowing off a meeting with Netanyahu? Especially after making a stink about how important it was to him to recognize that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel back into the Democratic Party platform... If meeting with Israel's Prime Minister isn't important enough for him to skip campaign appearances for... how is recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital important to him... Oh, just because of votes only...
So, Obama blowing off our staunch ally Israel's Prime Minister for campaign events isn't a foreign policy disaster.... But, Romney saying he wouldn't concede our interests to benefit our dubious adversarial nominal ally is a foreign policy disaster?
How about Obama being against the use of pre-emptive strike... then using it on Bin Laden, and Libya... yet, being absent in support of the Iranian student uprisings, the genocide in Dafur, and the uprising in Syria? What's Obama's standard for when pre-emptive strike is okay and not okay?
Your standards are a bit suspect, and would constitute a foreign policy disaster as well...
