A reader continues:
There's something very unsettling to me about a presidential candidate trash talking the current commander-in-chief in front of an audience of current military cadets (and them applauding it, no less). It's a free country, but it sure says something about his and their characters. The biggest irony is that Obama has been ferocious against al-Qaida, doing as Teddy Roosevelt did: speaking softly, but carrying a big stick.
Ben Smith clarifies that speech was "at the Citadel, but not a Citadel event." I'm going to write about this some more, but what struck me about Romney's foreign policy speech was its intellectual bankruptcy. After Iraq and Afghanistan, he's dusting off the Project For A New American Century? His first country-specific policy is a total defense of everything and anything an Israeli government wants? He believes that the Almighty Himself granted America a special right to global hegemony.
It's like something refrozen from the mid-1980s: stale, anachronistic, and utterly immune to any of the lessons from Bush-Cheney.
