Over at The American Conservative Daniel Larison reminds us how lucky we are that Mitt Romney lost in 2012. In an editorial in The Wall Street Journal he once again demonstrates that he has no knowledge of foreign policy and in addition listens to all the wrong people to make up for this deficit. He makes it sound like Iran and it’s government are a bunch of suicide bombers who will use the bomb once they get it. I suspect he may have outsourced this op ed to his friend Bibi Netenyahu.
A “suicidal” government would not have made peace with Iraq in the ’80s, nor would it have entered into negotiations in which it agreed to scale back its nuclear program as it has done. An “apocalypse-seeking” government wouldn’t cooperate with its major ideological foe against other enemies as Iran has done, and it wouldn’t accept a compromise on the nuclear issue in which it makes most of the concessions. This is what a government interested in its own self-preservation does. Romney has nothing to say about this sort of Iranian government because it does fit his nonsensical ideological framing of the issue. If he doesn’t understand some of the most basic things about the government with which the U.S. is dealing, why should anyone think that he has a clue about the rest of the relevant issues? (bold mine, RB)
If Romney had won in 2012 we would probably already be stuck in another quagmire in the Middle East. Romney is very smart when it comes to rubbing money together to make more money but has zero understanding of foreign affairs. I suspect that like George W Bush he really has no interest or curiosity about foreign policy. I don’t always agree with Obama but remain thankful that he defeated Mitt Romney in 2012.