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How to be a Foreign Policy Bumbler Like Mitt Romney in 5 Easy Steps
With the third and final presidential debate happening on Monday, the Obama campaign has helpfully put out a video that can teach all of America how to be a foreign policy bumbler like Mitt Romney.
Here is the video:
The 5 steps are so easy that anyone (who watches Fox News) can do them.
Step 1: Get the facts wrong;
Step 2: Undermine long-lasting relationships with your allies;
Step 3: Frequently highlight your lack of experience;
Step 4: Assemble a team of ideologues committed to endless war;
Step 5: Mistake your enemies (“C’mon, Mitt…think!”)
As you can see Mitt is batting a perfect 5 for 5. He consistently gets facts wrong, which is a polite way of saying that he is lying. For example, in the second presidential debate, Romney claimed that Obama never called the Libya attack an act of terror, when the president did exactly that.
Step two takes some real skill, but Romney managed to knock that one out of the park when he insulted everyone in England on the eve of the Olympics by questioning their security for the event. Romney has also been amazingly efficient at bragging to the world that he knows nothing about foreign policy. He checked step three off his list by claiming that, “a president is not a foreign policy expert.”
Step four was the easiest one of all of for Romney. Seventeen of Romney’s 24 special advisers on foreign policy served under Bush. This is why every single foreign policy address that Romney has given has been obsessed with war in the Middle East. The face at the top is different, but the policy of preemptive war remains the same. Step five was easily satisfied by Romney expressing his Rocky IV foreign policy that Russia is the US’s biggest geopolitical enemy.
Mitt Romney has a foreign policy problem. He doesn’t know anything about foreign affairs, and the only policies that he does have, come verbatim from the rejected presidency of George W. Bush. Mitt Romney’s debate strategy will likely be to attack Obama on foreign policy, while trying to pivot back to the economy as often as possible.
Never has a party’s candidate for president demonstrated as much foreign policy incompetence before an election as Mitt Romney has. Romney has been completely inept at every turn. It leads one to the conclusion that the Romney foreign policy has been informed by Fox News, and is being guided by the failure twins George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Mitt Romney isn’t just a return to the past. He is the past trying to look like the present.
Haven’t we had enough of bumbling foreign policy presidents who start wars and get Americans killed?
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16 Responses to How to be a Foreign Policy Bumbler Like Mitt Romney in 5 Easy Steps
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Reynardine
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
It can’t happen. It mustn’t happen. O Fate and Powers that Be, don’t let it happen…
Sandra
Oct. 21st, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Now, now folks, Romnesia’s millions hidden in tax havens around the world have all the FP knowledge and experience that he needs. Give he guy a break will ya.
tongue in cheek.
Anne
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Willard appeals to fear, ignorance, and the kind of chest-thumping jingoism that has been the main source of this country’s problems with other countries. He is just as clueless as Sarah Palin on foreign affairs, which is much worse in his case since he wants to be the one who takes the 3 a.m. calls. But worst of all, he appeals to a segment of Americans who are hung up on a juvenile, emotionally stunted John Wayne-type of machismo that does not serve our interests. That machismo, combined with an abysmal ignorance of international affairs, is what made his trip to other countries such an unmitigated disaster. These same folks he appeals to fail to realize that an American president is a main player on the world stage and inevitably sets the tone for the attitudes of others toward this country. That’s something that Willard seems completely tone-deaf to.
j
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Is it true that we will have international monitors to be observers in the election, if so it is good news, but it is sad that we are losing democracy because of the republicans who are making our elections like 3rd world elections where the vote isd often rigged.
Elizabeth
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
I’ve read people suggesting it, but haven’t seen anyone saying its happening. I agree with you. The Carter Foundation won’t do it because we don’t meet their standards. We have too many elected, partisan officials running our elections.
Sandra
Oct. 21st, 2012 at 1:46 pm
President Carter was asked about it and said America would have to request their involvement in overseeing the elections which we know will never happen esp. with the cheating R’thugslicans. The Country has to make the request.
1voice1vote
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
From the “Seventeen of Romney’s 24 special advisers on foreign policy served under Bush” link to Foreign Policy magazine:
“A Romney presidency promises to take us back to something all too familiar: a Bush-Cheney doctrine — equal parts naïve and cavalier — which eagerly embraces military force without fully considering the consequences. That “attack now and figure it out later” mindset had disastrous consequences for our country. We can’t afford to go back to the failed policies of the past, not when we’ve come so far and had so much success. America’s security depends on moving forward to confront the threats of the future. That’s what’s at stake in this election.”
Warren G. Richards
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Romoney is almost laughable; if it wasn’t possible for ignoramuses en masse actually to vote this heartless bastard into power, I would laugh.
We must re-elect President Obama & Vice President Biden with a supermajority of Democrats supporting them in both the Senate & House Representatives so we can eliminate the Block & Blame Republican obstructionists and get back on track to finish mopping up Ronald Reagan’s Trickle Down Economics cesspool.
Take care and hang in there, everyone.
Your friend,
Warren
Warren G. Richards
Kayenta, Mesa and Tucson AZ
Elizabeth
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
I’m hoping for a Democratic Senator from Arizona. You’ve got a winner in that guy! I realize he’s a conservative Democrat, but thats better than Flake, and lots, lots better than Kyle.
harris stein
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
This isn’t simply a case of war mongering obsession. It’s the same nonsense we saw with Bush 2 and the war of civilizations. Except that if you liked war in Iraq, you’ll love war in Iran. The Bush 2 neocons saw Iraq as the reason oil prices were high and decided that taking out Saddam and putting a friendly capitalist utopia in Iraq would immediately return gasoline prices to a dollar a gallon. The rest is history.
Now they aren’t satified with their handiwork in Iraq. They want to put the same friendly capitalist utopia in Iran and return gasoline prices to a dollar a gallon. The difference is that they will have to use nuclear weapons to subdue Iran. Oh, don’t worry, Mitt will manage to spin it as a triumph of republican neo con foreign policy.
Elizabeth
Oct. 20th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Iraq always was the starting place for the conquest of the Middle East. They thought Iraq would be a push-over, and the Iraqis would happily turn over their oil to western interests. Next was to be Iran, and finally, Syria. Then they would control the Middle East. Israel would be safe, and the oil companies would own all that lovely oil.
Sandra
Oct. 21st, 2012 at 1:50 pm
The R’thugs live in a time warp, they can’t seem to comprehend the cold war is over and Russia is now one entity not a host of countries under Communist rule but individually independent. Hell they still believe that their Doofus saying Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall ended Russia’s might and stronghold over regional countries.
Beaglemom
Oct. 21st, 2012 at 8:30 am
When Mitt Romney states that a president doesn’t need to know anything about foreign relations because there are so many people working at the State Department, I cringed. What an intellectually lazy man he is! He’s been running for president since he was governor of Massachusetts – the reason he was AWOL from his job so often. During that long period he should have been reading history, learning about geopolitics and traveling. I guess his attitude is that the CEO doesn’t need to know anything about what the company he heads produces. All he needs to know is how much money it will make for him.
DobieTracker
Oct. 21st, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Intellectually incurious.
Another trait Romney shares with Palin and another sign of his narcissism.
NOTHING is important unless HE thinks it is important and once he is RULER of the United States, then all those other heads of state can kiss his butt or he will declare war on them.
Actually, he would like that as then he could win all those wars and be RULER OF THE WORLD AND MAKE HIS MORMON CHURCH SO PROUD OF HIM.
According to the Mormons, doesn’t he then get his own planet in heaven?
Rajaraman Thiagarajan
Oct. 22nd, 2012 at 12:43 am
People who know Olympics must also know that winter
olympics is just a fraction of the summer olympics
and just by conducting the same in the wintry spots
where attendance is very thin one does not become a roll model to comment upon the world’s busiest and most ethnicaly populated city of London Olympics. This by itself should be an eyeopener for the discerning voter to shy away from voting for a person who is so ill informed despite proclaiming to be one of the celebrated CEOs of the private sector of the so called most productive segment of the Industry in USA.
May God bless and help America make the right choice in the Presidential election 2012.
Bonnie Fletcher
Nov. 1st, 2012 at 7:45 pm
I just now prayed to God that there are more voters like the above respondents than there are misguided Romney voters. I honestly don’t know if I could live in this country with him as President. I don’t what I would do but God help us, let President Obama have four more years to help get us out of this mess. Hurricane Sandy hopefully taught them something. Climate change is not a hoax, it is real.God bless President Obama and God bless the United States.