He wants to continue foreign aid to create economic opportunity. (whatever that means)
From a political point of view, Republican candidates typically pose as “Internationalist” sophisticates during campaing season to avoid being tagged as bumptious “Isolationists,” like Pat Buchanan. For this reason I am prepared to cut Romney some slack.
Afer all, I don’t think that supporting foreign aid translates verbatim to “I want to arm with heavy weapons a rag-tag bunch of Islamist rebels who happen to oppose a Mideast autocracy that we don’t care for.” But, who knows? Perhaps Mitt has fallen under the spell of whomever it was who convinced President Bush that transforming Iraq into a Western-style democracy would be a walk in the park. Let’s hope not.
There is only one way I would support arming the Islammists over there for war. That is, if we plan to seal it off and let them commence to slaughter one another and give Israel the plan to nuke any of the jihadist nations who touch or threaten them.
It’s time to stop killing Americans with the lie that there are moderate (western) Islamists who can be free and successful. There are not.