Romney tells Israeli newspaper: The Arab Spring is Obama's fault

[Stranger in a strange land]

A Republican is concerned about the intersection of religion and politics? That's.....interesting.

What do you mean how so? Religion is politics over there. Are you trying to make a comparison to over here with the religious right? There is no comparison but I'm sure a political point could be scored by blurting that out. When we have car bombings in the name of Jesus taking place on the streets of our country then we'll talk. If that's not what you were trying to get at please explain.

The one's doing the car bombings aren't the "Islamists" getting elected to high office though. The Tunisian "Islamist" party in particular seems quite harmless- not meaningfully more theocratic then the Republican party in states like Utah.

If anything, Ennhada is less theocratic than the GOP. Though it won a plurality in the Tunisian elections, 60% of Tunisians voted for secular parties, and Ennhada has announced that it won't seek to implement Sharia law.

The leading party in Libya's first fair election was a secular liberal party, though it will probably have to coalition with Islamist parties to form a government.

Is there any wonder that U.S. policy has changed and Hillary now calls the MB takeover of Egypt a "positive" development?

Egyptians should be allowed to live with their mistakes.

[Stranger in a strange land]

I guess the news here is that Romney is embracing the neocon foreign policy of George W Bush, something that isn't even in favor within the GOP anymore. Certainly swing voters are not going to be sold by "if only Obama was more like Bush"

Bottom line is that for this election Obama has the edge in FP and Romney's foreign trip is doing nothing to narrow the gap, and it may actually be making it worse.

I'm sure he cant wait to get home and start talking about the anemic GDP numbers because he is getting close to "I can see Russia from my house" territory when it comes to international affairs.

Romney's actually in an even deeper hole than that because the Republican stance on the Arab Spring seems to be something along the lines of, "The Arab Spring is good because it confirms the success of the Bush Freedom Agenda, and was inspired by the brilliant success of the U.S. intervention in Iraq, yet also bad because it's being run out of Tehran and is allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the region and is part of a massive plot to destroy Israel." Yes, there are people who actually think this way.