An Excerpt from Romney’s Free & Strong America emailOctober 26th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Free & Strong America PAC, Free and Strong America, Military, Mitt Romney, wars
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Those of us who believe that Obama is dangerously naive in his understanding of foreign policy and national defense have launched an editorial offensive against the eternal dithering of the Obama administration. NATO leaders, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, Gen. McChrystal, Ollie North and others have all led the chorus of criticism against Obama’s failure to make a decision to reinforce the troops in Afghanistan.
Just this past week, on SolidPrinciples.com, the site co-founded by me and Craig Edwards, I had the idea to nominate Obama for THE 2009 NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN AWARD.
The graphic that Craig came up with has attracted a fair amount of attention and that article and a couple others have been linked by Politico and other sites, with very supportive comments.
Both major political leaders and the conservative blogosphere all seem to be on the same page. Obama has got to stay away from the staged Town Hall meetings and put down the golf clubs long enough to make a good decision on troop levels for the war effort.
He also will have to deal with Iran and it’s headlong rush to acquire a nuclear capability. Based on his dismal track record of the past nine months, I don’t see much reason to optimistic on this score either.
With all this in mind, I wanted to post an excerpt from an email that I received from Gov. Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC this morning. He has a quote that really struck me, a quote that we should all consider very seriously: “The care of freedom is not long entrusted to the weak and timid.”
~~John Cronin~~
By: Mitt Romney
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I have been to Israel twice — most recently in 2007. I came away encouraged by what I saw. If we lived in a neighborhood like Israel’s, with suicide bombers crossing into our country to kill children in school buses, I’m not sure we could tolerate it. That people actually immigrate to Israel, rather than fleeing from the violence of the Middle East, is a testament to their courage, faith and character. But there is a clear and present danger, above all other threats in the region, and that’s Iran.
Iran represents the biggest threat to Israel and peace. Here’s how I describe Iran in a column I wrote last week for Human Events:
“The Iranian regime is unalloyed evil, run by people who are at once ruthless and fanatical. We should stop thinking that a charm offensive will talk the Iranians out of their pursuit of nuclear weapons. It will not. And agreements, unenforceable and unverifiable, will have no greater impact here than they did in North Korea. Once an outstretched hand is met with a clenched fist, it becomes a symbol of weakness and impotence. President Eisenhower said it well: ‘The care of freedom is not long entrusted to the weak and timid.’”
