Willard "Mitt" Romney Wants To OccupyThePentagon

Did you catch Romney's foreign policy speech at the South Carolina Citadel last week? Perfect yahoo audience for the very Military-Industrial Complex claptrap Dwight Eisenhower warned the country against in 1961. The speech was detached from reality and based solely on Republican talking points crafted for the GOP primary voters. But Romney's delusional calls for big increases in the military budget didn't go over all that well outside of the Citadel. Some of the first reviews:

Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest, "Is Mitt Romney a Neocon, A Realist, Or Both?": "Romney remains an equivocator... prepared to say or do almost anything that it takes to become president"

Mike Tomasky, Daily Beast, "Romney's Shallow Speech": "The text isn’t really a policy document at all. It’s a political document, aimed at pleasing three constituencies ...if its precepts were followed-- [it would] result in exactly the kind of weakened America he accuses President Obama of having created"

Laura Rozen, Yahoo!, "Romney pushes for ‘strong’ foreign policy but offers few specifics on Afghanistan": "[F]oreign policy experts on both sides of the aisle...raised questions about what they described as the ex-governor's inconsistent statements on Afghanistan....'Fight or run?' [American Enterprise Institute's Danielle] Pletka challenged. 'It's time to clarify.' 'Which Mitt Romney will show up at the Citadel to give a 'major foreign policy address'?' echoed former Clinton administration speechwriter Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the progressive National Security Network"

Juliette Kayyem, Boston Globe, "Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech was inaccurate and incomplete": "Governor Rick Perry seemed to have a monopoly on terribly strange and incoherent foreign policy statements-- until now. ... But, not to mention Al Qaeda, the killing of Osama bin Laden-- or, in fact, anything having to do with why we are in these wars-- makes Perry’s commissions seem sounder than Romney’s omissions."

James Fallows, The Atlantic, "Mitt Romney's Swiss-Cheese-Like Foreign Policy 'Strategy'": "A bunch of nothing... as a guide to handling even a single difficult question, good luck in finding answers in this speech."

Romney has put together a team of Bush foreign policy advisors... but only the worst of the lot. Even if most Republican primary voters dislike him, at least they have this crazy agenda some of them share with him. He'll need it-- as Bachmann and Perry go for the jugular:



And as the right wing bigots and teabaggers are reminded why they hate Mormons in general and Romey in particular: