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As we move towards the third presidential debate, Think Progress has published a very comprehensive review of Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy positions, declarations, statements, and yes, foreign policy etch-a-sketch.
Before I link the Think Progress piece (and it is a relevant screed), I am posting a sample graphic from the Think Progress article.
– CAP charts Romney’s plan to boost military spending. It doesn’t look good [7/31/2012]:
Let's take a couple of givens. Mitt Romney obviously has the philosophy and practice of win the election at any cost and with any words flowing from his mouth. He does so even when words do not contribute to cogent and congruent statements even on a day to day basis. Some refer to the man as a flip-flopper, I think it far more serious than the stumbles and cable-tracking of flipping back and forth between positions. Mitt Romney's first inclinations appears to be to tell a lie. Tell people what they want to hear or tell them what you think they want to hear. Mitt Romney is nothing shy of a pathological liar.
Pathological Liar: a person who lies to the point of it being considered a disease or condition an abnormally habitual liar.
Could the definition be the genesis of "Romnesia"?
The seriousness of his communication habit, is exacerbated as one considers he is seeking the Office of the Commander-in-Chief with all requisite need for stability and at times openness. Of course, our commander-in-Chief has to at times no work within the conscript of full openness with adversaries and even with allies at times. But, one who approaches all interactions with a tendency to lies is as dangerous to world piece as one who crams explosives into his underwear for sake of maiming and killing people. The only difference in the two is one carries dangers for mankind, and the other is terrorist bent on killing himself/herself.
As we view the presidential debate tonight, let's this very comprehensive article in mind.
Think Progress.....
A Comprehensive Timeline Of Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy Positions During The Campaign
Mitt Romney has spent considerable effort trying to avoid foreign policy and national security this campaign season. But when he’s had to engage, he’s forced to strike a delicate balance between satisfying his neocon advisers and right-wing war base on the one hand — while speaking to the rest of the country, which has no appetite for the militaristic Republican policies that have plagued this country since 2001, on the other.
In recent weeks, Romney made good on a promise he made earlier this year to a wealthy donor that he would try to exploit a foreign policy crisis for political gain. “If something of that nature presents itself,” Romney said, referring to the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, “I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.” With the attack that killed four Americans at the U.S diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya last month, Romney has done just that.
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