Seriously? The Republican Party is going to lecture us on how to manage the Middle-East and the military budgeting process?

In any case, I see 3 points in Romney’s position:

Point one, back dictatorships in the middle east to tamp down on Islamists winning in democracies. I don’t know any other way that can be taken as. He then muddles the issue by saying the USA should export our democratic values - except of course when the political parties his ideology does not like get elected. Then what would Mitt do? Back a military coup?

Point two, the US already has the world’s most powerful military, so any talk by Romney of strengthening the military is code words for military intervention.

Point three, is Mitt’s point that there should be ‘no daylight’ between the USA and Israel, a foreign country with its own foreign policy agenda (and nukes). That ties the USA to whatever the lesser country (Israel is the lesser country to the American super power) decides to do. If America is the ‘leader of the free world’ as Romney insists, should not Israel follow America’s lead rather than the USA follow Israel’s? We saw such an arrangement between Czarist Russia and Serbia. We see how that turned out. It is just an insane idea.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444712904578024293333633994.html

September 30, 2012, 6:09 p.m. ET

Mitt Romney: A New Course for the Middle East

Restore the three sinews of American influence: our economic strength, our military strength and the strength of our values