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.
The irony is that the most recent President to beat another who had strong successes in foreign policy was Bill Clinton who could never promise to 'top' his predecessor. In practice Clinton wisely adopted the foreign policy of the elder Bush practically intact.
I don't know how much credit President Obama deserves for the Arab Spring... he hasn't hurt it. Freedom in an Islamic country means that an Islamic party can take over instead of a secular party to American taste.
The way to deal with the successes in foreign policy of a prior administration is to co-opt them -- not to pick faults at them.
