On Romney’s list were bold-faced names who served in the Bush administration like former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former CIA Director Michael Hayden, as well as Cofer Black, who once served as the vice chairman of the controversial private-security firm Blackwater.Mittens also likes Hacks from Heritage:
Romney’s team also includes some prominent voices in the neo-conservative movement, such as Brookings fellow and syndicated columnist Robert Kagan, and it lists former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor.
Kim Holmes
Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation; Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (2001-2005)
Jim Talent
Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation; United States Senator (R-MO) (2002-2007)
Europe
Nile Gardiner, Co-Chair
Director of the Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom; Foreign Policy Researcher for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (2000-2002)
Ray Walser, Co-Chair
Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation; Director of the Foreign Service Institute's Western Hemisphere Area Studies program (2005-2007); 27-year Foreign Service Officer
Just as bad, (h/t Atrios) Mittens is behind one of the better ways to destroy America:
As President, on Day One, I will focus on rebuilding America’s economy. I will reverse President Obama’s massive defense cuts.
UPDATE: War Jeebus returns:
Romney: God wants America to lead
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, October 7, 2011
“God did not create this country to be a nation of followers. America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers,” Romney said, in the most important foreign policy speech of the Republican campaign so far.
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I prefer the proposals of a harder Right but more realistic Pat Buchanan.
"What should our future defense posture be? Which principles should apply?
Clearly, the first principle should be that the United States must retain a sufficiency, indeed, a surplus of power to defend all of its vital interests and vital allies, though the defense of those allies must be first and foremost their own responsibility. They have to replace U.S. troops as first responders.
During the Cold War, America was committed to go to war on behalf of a dozen NATO nations from Norway to Turkey. Eastern Europe under Moscow’s boot was not considered vital.
Thus we resisted the Berlin Blockade, but peacefully. We did nothing to rescue the Hungarian revolution in 1956, or the Prague Spring in 1968, or the Polish Solidarity movement in 1981, when all three were crushed.
Now that the Red Army has gone home, Eastern Europe is free, and the Soviet Union no longer exists, what is the argument for maintaining U.S. Air Force, Army and naval bases and thousands of U.S. troops in Europe?
Close the bases, and bring the troops home.
The same with South Korea and Japan. Now that Mao is dead and gone and China is capitalist, Seoul and Tokyo trade more with Beijing than they do with us.
South Korea has 40 times the economy and twice the population of North Korea. Japan’s economy is almost as large as China’s. Why cannot these two powerful and prosperous nations provide the troops, planes, ships and missiles to defend themselves?"
AND
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2011/10/08/reviewing-an-american-century/
The last of four Larison critiques since Romney's foreign policy speech.
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