LEXINGTON, Va. — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that President Obama has embraced a passive foreign policy that retreats from the bipartisan consensus that has governed for generations, and said that under Mr. Obama the United States no longer shapes events on the global stage.
Speaking at the Virginia Military Institute, Mr. Romney said in his campaign’s first major address on foreign policy that the world wants a strong America to underpin a stable world order, but said that with Mr. Obama in the White House, U.S. allies have been left wondering how the country will react. Too often, Mr. Romney said, the Obama administration has failed to take the lead in shaping events overseas that could threaten American interests or allies.
“Hope is not a strategy,” the former Massachusetts governor told the audience here.
The GOP nominee pointed to last month’s attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in Libya and across the Middle East as symbolic of the Democratic administration’s failed approach to the region, where he said the president has abandoned the nation’s tradition — “written by patriots of both parties” — of taking a more forceful role to prevent “today’s crises from becoming tomorrow’s conflicts.”
“It is time to change course in the Middle East,” Mr. Romney said. “That course should be organized around these bedrock principles: America must have confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose and resolve in our might. No friend of America will question our commitment to support them, … no enemy that attacks America will question our resolve to defeat them, and no one anywhere, friend or foe, will doubt America’s capability to back up our words.”
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