Romney and Ryan Project Vague Foreign Policy

truthdig.com — Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate for the American presidency confirms that this campaign is going to be mainly about domestic issues—barring a not-impossible Israeli attack on Iran between here and there. It is likely to count for zero that is intelligent concerning American foreign policy during the next administration. Yet foreign affairs will be the most important issue of all to address as the United States staggers forward into the void. Neither Mitt Romney nor Paul Ryan seem close to the hawkish ideology that gave the United States its present military deployments in Asia and Central Asia, and now increasingly in Africa. But they seem to have no clear intellectual position at all, which is to say that they might easily become the instruments of others with aggressive ideologies of their own.

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