Foreign Policy Blogging at OTB

I’ve just published a foreign policy-related post at Outside the Beltway:

Mitt Romney Is Not Convincing Me

Mitt Romney outlines his plan for dealing with Iran in an op-ed in the Washington Post. I’m not sure whether he’s trying to distinguish himself from the president or reassure me that he’ll continue his policies. Either way it’s not working.

4 comments… add one
  • Maxwell James Link

    Yep. For all the talk about how wide the gap between the parties has become, in some ways the consistency is just remarkable.

  • Not only remarkable but depressing. What’s a non-interventionist to do? The choice is between a liberal interventionist and a neoconservative interventionist. As the situation in Libya should have reaffirmed for us, both groups have the attention spans of fruit flies.

  • Maxwell James Link

    Well, us non-interventionists haven’t had a choice for well over a generation now. The brand was already in tatters before McGovern & Carter, and they utterly killed it.

    That’s why, even though I would never vote for him, I take a certain heart in the Paul campaign. He’s a crackpot but it seems to me the growth in his support has been driven by the non-interventionist vote. Unfortunately I think he’s more interested in passing that support on to his son than to a sane candidate like Gary Johnson. Two steps forward, two steps back…

  • Ben Wolf Link

    America has never been non-interventionist. It’s just doing what it has always done. Those of us who oppose such policies are the odd-ones out.

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