Obama's Foreign Policy Mistakes

I'm not a great fan of Mitt Romney. But check out the first paragraph of his opinion piece in the July 6, 2010 edition of the WaPo:

Given President Obama's glaring domestic policy missteps, it is understandable that the public has largely been blinded to his foreign policy failings. In fact, these may have been even more damaging to America's future. He fought to reinstate Honduras's pro-Chávez president while stalling Colombia's favored-trade status. He castigated Israel at the United Nations but was silent about Hamas having launched 7,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip. His policy of "engagement" with rogue nations has been met with North Korean nuclear tests, missile launches and the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel, while Iran has accelerated its nuclear program, funded terrorists and armed Hezbollah with long-range missiles. He acceded to Russia's No. 1 foreign policy objective, the abandonment of our Europe-based missile defense program, and obtained nothing whatsoever in return.

Spot on, in my view. Damning, in fact.

The next paragraph reads as follows as Romney goes on to discuss BHO's worst foreign-policy mistake:

Despite all of this, the president's New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New-START) with Russia could be his worst foreign policy mistake yet. The treaty as submitted to the Senate should not be ratified....

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By all indications, the Obama administration has been badly out-negotiated....

Read the whole thing HERE.