Barack Obama in No Apology, by Gov. Mitt Romney (R, MA)

On Foreign Policy: OpEd: American Apology Tour: disliking USA understandable

Pres. Obama is well on his way toward engineering a dramatic shift in American foreign policy. He envisions America as a nation whose purpose is to arbitrate disputes rather than to advocate ideals, a country consciously seeking equidistance between allies and adversaries. Obama has positioned himself as a figure transcending America instead of defending America.

This sentiment manifests itself in several different ways, including Pres. Obama's American Apology Tour. Never before in American history has its president gone before so many foreign audiences to apologize for so many American misdeeds, both real and imagined. It is his ways of signaling that foreign dislike for America is something he understands and that is, at least in part, understandable. There are anti-American fires burning all across the globe; Obama's words are kindling to them. In his first nine months in office, Obama has issued apologies and criticism of America in speeches in France, England, Turkey, and Cairo.

Source: No Apology, by Mitt Romney, p. 25 Mar 2, 2010

On Foreign Policy: OpEd: overseeing smooth decline into post-superpower status

President Obama's presupposition is that America is in a state of inevitable decline. He seems to believe that we have entered the "post-American world." The perspective is shared by many in the foreign policy cognoscenti, and apparently by the president himself. He therefore sees his task as somehow managing that decline, making the transition to post-superpower status as smooth as possible, helping Americans understand and adjust to their new circumstances.

In his response to a question about whether he believed in "American exceptionalism"--a phrase that indicates America has a special place and role in the world--he replied, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." Which is another way of saying he doesn't believe it at all.

Source: No Apology, by Mitt Romney, p. 28-29 Mar 2, 2010

On Homeland Security: OpEd: walked away from missile defense of Eastern Europe

Russia's burgeoning relationship with Venezuela has purpose beyond energy: anything that diminishes America pleases Putin, both because it weakens a competing power and because it gratifies his personal animus for the US. Russia's resistance to severe sanctioning of North Korea and Iran as they have pursued their nuclear programs are a stick in the eye for the US. So, too, is Russia's insistence that the world replace the dollar as the reserve currency. Putin also bitterly opposes any development that would strengthen the US such as missile defense, particularly in Eastern Europe, and admission of the former Soviet satellites into NATO. Pres. Obama's decision to walk way from our missile defense program in Poland and the Czech Republic was a huge concession to Putin, as is the stalling on admission of Georgia and the Ukraine into NATO. Russia welcomes concessions, and these, like their predecessors, were not repaid in kind. Russia takes, Pres. Obama gives, and Russia demands more. Source: No Apology, by Mitt Romney, p. 18 Mar 2, 2010

The above quotations are from No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, by Gov. Mitt Romney. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Barack Obama. Click here for Barack Obama on all issues.
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