Romney Goes Neocon

Last week Mitt Romney gave a hawkish speech at The Citadel, South Carolina’s revered military academy, during which he rained shot on President Barack Obama's national security policy like Old Ironsides dismasting the Guerriere.

That Obama subscribes to the apologize-for-America wing of liberalism is no surprise to anyone, nor is the fact that Obama has failed to maintain and promote U.S. supremacy.

The problem with Romney’s speech was not what he said, but what he left out.

Romney’s solution to Obama’s failures was to announce a national security team made-up of Bush-era Neocons and to propose that we spend not just more, but a whole lot more on the military. This undoubtedly made the defense industry insiders and contractors who are supporting Romney happy, but will it make America safer?

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