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2012-10-08 -Election 2012
In foreign policy speech, Romney will encourage military spending, Syria intervention
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Posted by tipper 2012-10-08 05:10|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 I hope the part about Syria is wrong. I do not want the US involved.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2012-10-08 05:22||   2012-10-08 05:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Romney will also argue that the U.S. must support the rebels to develop influence and good relations with the Syria's future leaders.

Recommend he have a quick look at Sub-Saharan Africa and see how that concept has panned out over time.
Posted by Besoeker 2012-10-08 05:47||   2012-10-08 05:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The honeymoon is over.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-10-08 06:37||   2012-10-08 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 The Syrian rebels are going to win anyway and get their hands on the regime's heavy weapons.

A few anti-tank, anti-air weapons aint going to matter after Assad has gone.
Posted by phil_b 2012-10-08 07:34||   2012-10-08 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 "...walking the power lines by where I live and it's hooked into wind farms. Before that they had a listening post set up out where I live and got into everyone's personal stuff watched it firsthand (short wave etc)! Any way the CIA..."

A tin foil hat would fix that fer ya!
Posted by Unang Omeans6347 2012-10-08 07:47||   2012-10-08 07:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Angiting Snore1647 you are very ill.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-10-08 07:48||   2012-10-08 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not clear to me whether Angiting Snore1647 needs to double his dose or halve it.
Posted by Steve White 2012-10-08 08:11||   2012-10-08 08:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Since he posted that exact same screed three times around the Burg, I have deleted two of them. I may yet delete the third as a matter of principle.
Posted by trailing wife 2012-10-08 08:41||   2012-10-08 08:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry we lost that rant.
Posted by Vinegar Henbane5537 2012-10-08 08:41||   2012-10-08 08:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Hopefully this is election season hot air. Getting involved in Syria would be about as successful as Afghanistan.
Posted by DarthVader 2012-10-08 09:53||   2012-10-08 09:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Politicians have a thing about OPM, be it other peoples' money, or other people's mess...
Posted by M. Murcek 2012-10-08 09:59||   2012-10-08 09:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Damn it, Mitt, can't we just stay out of Syria?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2012-10-08 10:15||   2012-10-08 10:15|| Front Page Top

#13 Being as we don't have an identifiable budget or foreign policy at the present, I'll listen to Romney's foreign policy speech with interest.

Presently, the forces in Syria are grinding each other down. One downside that might occur would be that islamics will take over. Another might be that Russia will continues to back Assad and help crush the rebels since they stand to gain from continuing the existing cozy relationship. Turkey has a border dispute with Syria. Romney might want to think over the options and extended consequences of each very carefully. I wonder who Romney's military and foreign affairs advisers are? I like Romney's stance of a strong military.
Posted by JohnQC 2012-10-08 10:34||   2012-10-08 10:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Note that this is NBC News trying to give Romneys speech before Romney does. Best wait for him and his speech before commenting on any policies as put forward by NBC.
Posted by tipover 2012-10-08 10:58||   2012-10-08 10:58|| Front Page Top

#15 One area in which Mittens is a clear improvement.

Not sure I agree with other comments on staying out of Syria. Might be an angle where we just let the entire region cannibalize itself for a couple of generations.
Posted by Iblis 2012-10-08 12:06||   2012-10-08 12:06|| Front Page Top

#16 Syria - NOT our friend.
Posted by mojo 2012-10-08 12:39||   2012-10-08 12:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Seeing the Syria intervention intention gives the same initial cold shiver as reading that McCain had chosen Palin as his running mate.

In both cases, not necessarily the wrong choice logically, but likely disaster for election prospects...

(In the case of Syria, also probably the wrong choice logically. NOT a good idea to support that now. It's another Iraq/Afghanistan, and he'll look like a sure-fire warmonger.)
Posted by Bulldog 2012-10-08 14:50||   2012-10-08 14:50|| Front Page Top

#18 The NYT's take on the speech.
In Search of Answers From Mitt Romney
Posted by tipper 2012-10-08 16:21||   2012-10-08 16:21|| Front Page Top

#19 Could be debate framing as much as anything. I know how I would ask it.

That NY Opines link is like gargling spoilt milk.
Posted by swksvolFF 2012-10-08 16:42||   2012-10-08 16:42|| Front Page Top

#20 The Telegraph
Mitt Romney calls for Syrian rebels to be armed

"Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them," Mr Romney said in a speech in Virginia. "We should be working no less vigorously through our international partners to support the many Syrians who would deliver that defeat to Iran – rather than sitting on the sidelines."

The former Massachusetts governor did not, however, specify which rebel factions should be armed, nor if the US should arm them directly or facilitate supply by allies. Diverging from prepared remarks, he said the US should work "through" its global partners, rather than "with".
Posted by tipper 2012-10-08 16:42||   2012-10-08 16:42|| Front Page Top

#21 The NYT's editorial is just another hit piece on Romney. One more reason to not waste money on the NYTs. The LSM keeps on carrying water for "O" despite a failed presidency.
Posted by JohnQC 2012-10-08 16:44||   2012-10-08 16:44|| Front Page Top

#22 Sniff, sniff, is there no love for POTUS Eisenhower?

Moscow does NOT want anything resembling an "Arab/Islamic" or "Caucasus Spring" in its neck of the woods, regardless of the merits or Hillary.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-10-08 19:59||   2012-10-08 19:59|| Front Page Top

#23 Closer to home = CONUS ...

* TOPIX > TURKEY INFILTRATING [investing] IN NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, AND MAY GET CONGRESSIONAL HELP FOR SPECIAL RIGHTS.

* RELATED SAME > STUNNER: TURKISH ISLAMISTS SELECT NEW TARGET IN NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, + "SEE NO EVIL" US HOUSE BILL MAY FACILITATE THE EFFECT.

ARTIC > Turkish companies being used for alleged covert prosletyzing of Radical Islamism to US AmeriIndians.

FUTURE SITTING BULL, CRAZY HORSE, etal. WANNABES TO WEAR ISLAMIC BURQUAS UNDERNEATH THEIR WAR BONNETS???

'Tis going to be interesting to explain how Little Big Horn survivor TONKA = COMMANCHE'S descendants became Camels, + no longer Hosses.
Can't blame the Genetics Boyz on this one.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-10-08 23:07||   2012-10-08 23:07|| Front Page Top

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