Reeling from criticism of his Britain visit and seemingly operating under the assumption that the “winner” of the foreign policy debate will be whoever presents himself as a bigger shill for Israel, former Governor Mitt Romney today sought to promote Iran’s civilian nuclear program as a Holocaust-level threat to the entire planet.
Terming Iran’s nuclear “capabilities” an “incomparable” threat, Romney insisted he would endorse any measures taken by Israel against them, adding that he believes it is a moral imperative to stop Iran from acquiring any nuclear program at all.
Using the term “capabilities” instead of “weapons” isn’t an attempt to confuse the debate in this case, but rather an effort to broaden the scope of what the US considers unacceptable for Iran to possess. Technically speaking, a large number of non-nuclear weapons nations have nuclear “capabilities,” and even if Iran continued perfectly legally under the nuclear NPT with its civilian program they could be accused of such a capability merely for generating electricity and producing medical isotopes.
Moving from railing against Iran to touring a city, Gov. Romney declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital, while pledging to “always stand with Israel” on the question of Israel. Though Israel also maintains that Jerusalem is its “eternal and undivided” capital, the fact that it includes considerable occupied territory has left this a disputed matter, with even the US putting its official embassy in Tel Aviv.
Romney’s declaration was quickly condemned by top Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat, who warned that the US election should not be at the expense of the two state solution, adding that Romney was “rewarding occupation” with his comments. The PA has insisted that occupied East Jerusalem will be the capital of a Palestinian state.
Mitt is making a good case to vote for Obama.
I wonder how much of a case Obama is now going to make for voting for Mitt.
what is the use? When Obama's obsequeous smarminess is made to look ok by the extreme nastiness of the Mutt, what hope is there for 310million Mercans or the rest of us?
Romney has a tin ear for politics. America has never voted for war. In 1916 Wilson ran on the slogan, He Kept Us Out Of War. In 1940 FDR went to Fenway Park and brayed a lie over and over that he would not send his listeners' sons to fight as foreign war. In 1952 Truman got his ass booted because of communism, corruption and Korea. The latter was the most telling point. Ike said he would go to Korea with the tacit implication that he would end the war there. He ended 20 years of Democrat landslides with a GOP blowout. In 1968 Johnson withdrew because of Viet Nam. Conclusion: Romney has never read a history book and has been captured by a clique of dual loyalty neocons who think they can make reality. Obama is just as bad if not worse. O Tempora! O Mores!
Tadzio: You hit the nail on thehead. Wars and warmongers are never popular with the electorate. Nixon ran as the man who had a plan to end the Vietnam war. He won a huge mandate in 1972, in part because he claimed to have suceeded. Bush 2 ran as a mn who would pursue a a humble more peceful policywith no nation building. Obama ran as the peace candidate. He will run again as the peace candidate. It is laughable, but compared to Romney, he looks like St Francis of Assisi.
As usual, the Presidential election choice is between two warmongers from the two like-minded candidates when it comes to Israel and war. However, Romney is worse than Obama in this regard. Obama may actually try to change things somewhat when and if re-elected, and throw off the yoke of having Middle East foreign policy dictated by Israel.
Romney demonstrating his lips are superior for the job
We learn that Romney obtained about one million dollars in campaign funding during his visit to Israel. I thought it was illegal for foreign parties to directly fund candidates in US elections? Maybe with the current scheme of dual citiizenship, it is permissible. This only confirms that serious discussion has to be had about not allowing dual citizens to be elected to any government position or to hold sensitive government positions. Which country are these folks looking out for?
Heard on RT, that Mitt, while he was kissing tush, gratuitously insulted the Palestinians by stating that they were inferior to the Israelis (Jews) and that they didn't deserve their own country. George Orwell remarked that it was a sign of a well trained dog if it would jump through hoops without even being asked to. Like his fancy horse, Mitt is well trained.
You have waited too long my brother to stop this now the neocons and israel controls your country so you must go out to murder innocent Palestinians and whoever israel perceives to be a threat and get killed yourself.
balls??? maybe…brains???…no
The only people who can destroy Israel are the Israelis themselves. Now that their courts have passed a law claiming that the occupation is not an occupation, it brings the one state solution closer and closer. The PA's role of simply making itself important and well to do also helps bring this about. The one state solution may be the only way for the Palestinians to strive for their legitimate rights.