Today\’s Quote Of The Day comes to us from Mitt Romney, a man with a rich history of success in just about everything he has done, and whom we had the chance to elect President two years ago.
This is what he said, yesterday, at the Israeli American Council National Conference:
“Iwas frankly stunned that the President of the United States wouldwrite a letter of that nature, in effect legitimizing a nation and aleadership which is violating international norms and is threateningthe world. I find it astonishing.
“Youcan talk about a president talking to other world leaders. But tosuggest that somehow we could somehow work together is something thatis so far beyond the pale I was speechless.
“Theright kind of approach is to recognize Iran in the way we thoughtabout South Africa during apartheid. We considered it a pariah. Theirleaders were shunned, they were not invited to international bodies.We exerted moral sway. To somehow have communications with Iran\’ssupreme leader is, in my view, an enormous error,.
“Itis tempting to think that the President is simply inept in dealingwith foreign affairs. The reality is, he does have a foreignpolicy…ineffective and wrong.”
“Thepresident is weakening our military and distancing us from our allies- which weakens us.
“(Obama)began by going into the Arab world and apologizing for America, andsaying we were dictatorial, divisive – and that we were dismissive ofother nations. And the remarkable thing is that he now is doing thatvery thing. But not to our enemies. To our friends.
“Itturns American foreign policy on its head – and it\’s one of thereasons, in my view, that you see bold actions by authoritarianregimes around the world. It leads bad people to think America can bepushed around”
How true those words ring. How disastrous for us that they do. And how terrible a missed opportunity we had to replace Barack Obama with Mitt Romney.
I award Mr. Romney Quote Of The Day honors partly for those words, and partly for reminding me, with great sadness, of how much better off we – and the rest of the world, especially our allies – could have been.
