Larison pinpoints a basic problem with the Romney foreign policy vision – an obsession with friend/enemy binaries:
Romney’s criticisms suggest that he thinks one of Obama’s greatest mistakes is pursuing cooperation with states that don’t fall simply into categories of friend or foe. It’s as if he thinks it is wrong to try to advance U.S. interests through cooperation with another state unless the other state is entirely and always on "our" side. That doesn’t leave many states with which to cooperate.
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