Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to slam President Obama’s “weak” and “out-of-touch” foreign policy decisions.
“The president has a very different foreign policy than that that’s been followed by our country over the last 50 or 60 years,” Romney told Fox News host Chris Wallace. “His view is that instead of having a strong American military that is able to keep other nations in check, that we ought to instead put in place a policy based on what he calls common humanity. Well, humanity is not common in its views. What one people call evil, another people call good.”
Romney also identified Obama as “out of touch with reality” when it comes to making foreign policy decisions.
“He looked at Russia and thought that was a friend we should reset relations with,” explained the former Massachusetts governor. “He looked at al-Qaeda and said they’re on the run. Just more recently, he looked at ISIS and said they’re just a junior varsity [team]. He looks at Iraq and says they’re strong enough people to care for themselves.”
“When America is seen and the president is seen as being weak,” Romney continued, “bad people do bad things.”
Referring to Obama’s recent 15-day vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, during which the president golfed as crises exploded domestically and abroad, Romney described Obama as “too busy on the golf course” to interact with foreign leaders and discuss how to deal with ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
On the topic of his insistence that he will not run again for president in 2016, Romney said firmly that he is not “planning on running.” He did, however, assert with certainty that he would have made a better president than Obama and would be a better choice for the job than potential Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
“Her record is Barack Obama’s record in foreign policy,” he said of former secretary of State Clinton. “It’s a disaster.”
“Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod and the American people have tasted that and said that’s not a good taste,” Romney continued.
Romney emphasized the need for the next president to “get this economy going,” echoing the concern of the majority of Americans who label economic problems the most important issue that the United States currently faces.
