Walter Rhett: Romney on Foreign Policy: All Fault, No Forward

[DemocratsForProgress]

A partisan critique of the President’s foreign policy is not a foreign policy plan. Mitt Romney is conducting his review, and his VFW convention stump speech on foreign policy sounded remarkably similar to his stump speech about America’s standing. All fault, no forward. All will, no way. All blame, no shame. His grand strategy sounds like a call for global domination. We know he doesn’t practice what he preaches! He is the first major party candidate to express his faith in America by moving his money out of the country. The real question is: what does he preach?

What uses of soft power does Romney propose? Where does he stand on the UN call for nations to give 0.07% of GDP to foreign aid? What is his approach to the military and political conflicts that have destabilized and disrupted important African states? Does he see the connections between political stability and gender equality recently outlined in Foreign Policy? What are his views on international agreements on fishing stocks? How will he limit the theft of intellectual property?

Does he see AIDS treatment as an arm of American policy? Will he switch to local purchases of food aid, a model that reduces workers’ risk, stimulates local markets, and broadens the aid’s impact? Will he strengthen ties with Brazil, already a major partner of China? Will he aid in developing Brazil’s enormous oil find or expand its steel industry, redirecting energy and infrastructure trade to a hemispherical partner? Does he support greater access to education and greater economic opportunity for the world’s women?

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