Romney decides to go with a destiny ordained by God

“God did not create this country to be a nation of followers,” Romney asserts in the prepared text. “America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers.”

The remarks are an attack on the foreign policy that Obama has pursued, one that sees the world as a network of multilateral powers and relies on U.S. allies to take the lead in some crises - as France and Great Britain did in Libya.

Romney rejects that view. “This century must be an American century,” he plans to say in his speech, prepared for delivery at The Citadel, a military university here. “In an American century, America leads the free world.”