Remember how “W”, advised by the
Neocon cabal, took us to war and invaded a nation that had absolutely
nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, absolutely no Al-Qaeda
presence, and absolutely no weapons of mass destruction?
Well, watch out if the Mittster is
elected. Many of these same Neocons are whispering in Romney's ear
about Iran. His rhetoric over the past couple of weeks has made it
clear that the nation would have to be crazy to elect this man to
lead the country. (Of course, if the Republicans can effectively
deny five million voters their basic democratic right to vote, he
may just pull it off.) Besides taking hundreds of billions of
dollars from domestic programs for military weapons that even the
armed forces don't want, Romney has given every indication of letting
the right wing Israeli leader Netanyahu call the shots on the timing
of “military action” against Iran regardless of how damaging that
would be to the United States. His political posturing and criticism
of Obama's handling of the attacks on American embassies were totally
offbase and show him unfit to lead this country in any capacity.
I've criticized Obama for staying in
Afghanistan, for taking too long to extricate the US from Iraq, and
for being played like a fiddle by Isreal's right wing leader Benjamin
Netanyahu on the Palestinian – Israeli peace process. But at
least Obama has finally gotten the troops out of Iraq and set a date
when US combat forces will be out of Afghanistan. He appears to be
making a good faith effort to negotiate a solution to the Iran
nuclear program. In addition, Israeli overreaction to Palestinian
actions has been relatively muted with nothing to date to compare
with the devastating incursion into Palestinian territority at the
end of the Bush's second term that more than 1000 Palestinians dead, many or most of the victims
civilians. Can you imagine Romney putting any kind of restraint
on Netanyahu? Yes that same Netanyahu who said earlier this week, in
the middle of the election cycle in an effort to try to force
Obama's hand, that if the Obama administration was unwilling to set
fixed red lines that Iran could not cross, it “has no ‘moral
right’ to restrain Israel from taking military action of its own”
?
Bad as his domestic policies would be,
Romney's foreign and defense policies would bring about the same loss
of US influence and respect seen during the Bush years. Combined
with his tax breaks for the very wealthy and his deregulation,
another costly war would be the crowning blow to the United States
economy. We'd be worse off than with Bush. To say Romney knows
nothing about foreign affairs may have been a mistatement on my part.
If he really believes the garbage that's been coming out of his
mouth recently, he would be downright dangerous.
