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Kerry urges ‘fresh thinking’ to tackle global woes
Probable next US secretary of state John Kerry called for “fresh thinking” Thursday as he outlined his foreign policy agenda and plans for relations with Iran, China and the Middle East. “American foreign policy is not defined by drones and deployments alone,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations committee, which…
Foreign Policy Debate Devolves Into Conspiracy Theory Wanking
The foreign policy debate is a hard one for me to write about, because I just generally object to the entire process. First of all, the Beltway media narrowly defines foreign policy as “Israel plus countries we’d be interested in bombing”, and that framework basically determines the debate. No mention…
Will the Obama-Romney foreign policy debate determine the election?
How the Obama-Romney foreign policy debate could determine the election How important is Monday night’s foreign policy debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? The way things stand right now, it could determine the outcome on Election Day. Nobody would have predicted that just a few weeks ago. But with…
Madeleine Albright calls out Romney for ‘very shallow’ foreign policy
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Monday dismissed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s major speech on foreign policy as mostly platitudes and little substance. Speaking at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington earlier on Monday, Romney had criticized President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy of using “hope” and “passivity”…
Reporter: Romney surrounded by Bush neocons
Washington Post reporter Nia Malika Henderson on Thursday noted that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had selected neoconservatives from the Bush administration to be his foreign policy advisers. “He is surrounded by neocons from the Bush administration, people that Colin Powell called ‘too far to the right’ in terms of…
Maddow chronicles Mitt Romney’s foreign policy screw-ups
On her show Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow provided a brief history of Mitt Romney’s “half-cocked” foreign policy remarks. Most recently, the Republican presidential candidate attacked the Obama administration for allegedly “apologizing” to angry Muslims who violently protested at the U.S. embassy in Cairo. The protesters were upset by…
Romney and Ryan claim their foreign policy expertise is better than Obama’s
The Republican White House ticket sought to neuter the perceived foreign policy edge of the Obama electoral campaign on Sunday, attacking the president’s record whilst bragging of their own experience overseas. The current administration was guilty of failing to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Mitt Romney claimed during an interview with…
Carville: Might be better for Romney to keep his mouth shut
Democratic strategist James Carville on Thursday joked that it might be best for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney if he didn’t say anything during his overseas tour. CNN host Erin Burnett noted that Romney refused to talk about his foreign policy views to CNN, but allowed the Israeli newspaper Haaretz…
Romney pressured to define foreign policy on overseas tour
Mitt Romney will arrive in London on Wednesday pursued by calls from the Obama administration to use his first overseas tour as the Republican presidential candidate to define a foreign policy that amounts to more than criticising the president. Mocked for his description of Russia as the US’s leading geopolitical foe…
Obama defends his foreign policy ahead of Romney trip
RENO, Nevada — US President Barack Obama touted a track record of foreign policy success Monday and implicitly criticized the positions of his Republican rival Mitt Romney, who heads this week to Europe and the Middle East. Obama reminded an audience of military veterans in Nevada of his vow four…
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