Where you and I see insanity fueled by colossally over-inflated egos, they see a world filled with people of inferior intellect who will never understand the greatness they have to offer.

David Dayen:

In a speech today at the Virginia Military Institute, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney will commit to arming Syrian rebels, and will attribute the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi to the "same forces that attacked our homeland on September 11th, 2001," which under the still-active Authorization to Use Military Force commits the United States to military action in that country.

From the speech (released by the Romney campaign):

I will put the leaders of Iran on notice that the United States and our friends and allies will prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons capability. I will not hesitate to impose new sanctions on Iran, and will tighten the sanctions we currently have. I will restore the permanent presence of aircraft carrier task forces in both the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf the region--and work with Israel to increase our military assistance and coordination. For the sake of peace, we must make clear to Iran through actions--not just words--that their nuclear pursuit will not be tolerated [...]

In Libya, I will support the Libyan people's efforts to forge a lasting government that represents all of them, and I will vigorously pursue the terrorists who attacked our consulate in Benghazi and killed Americans [...]

In Syria, I will work with our partners to identify and organize those members of the opposition who share our values and ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad's tanks, helicopters, and fighter jets. Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them. We should be working no less vigorously with our international partners to support the many Syrians who would deliver that defeat to Iran--rather than sitting on the sidelines. It is essential that we develop influence with those forces in Syria that will one day lead a country that sits at the heart of the Middle East.

And - surprise! - the Etch-a-Sketch gets shaken once again so Romney can change his policy on Israel.

Dayen again:

Later in the speech Romney will endorse the two state solution for Israel and Palestine that he completely disavowed in a secretly-taped fundraiser in May. And he sees free trade as a route to foreign policy success, criticizing the President for not signing "one new free trade agreement in the past four years" (Obama has signed three agreements previously negotiated by the Bush Administration with Panama, Colombia and South Korea, and is in the midst of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a NAFTA for Asia that would be the biggest in decades).

Dayen calls it, overall, "the Obama approach with a little more energy to it."  

With Obama you are out of Afghanistan in 2014, Mitt says he would the same but how many times have candidates campaigned on pulling troops only to become President and completely do a 180.

Speaking of which:

In a December 2009 speech, Obama simultaneously announced a "surge" of 30,000 soldiers and a pledge to begin the withdrawal of U.S. troops by July 2011.

And here we are two years later and counting on something happening after another election.

Incidentally, who would you guess said this?:

"Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...."

It was Eisenhower - a republican in the process of ending the Korean war.

Romney ain't no Eisenhower. But for me, the issue is not so much which party a candidate belongs to, but how committed they are to a process of peace and negotiation.

If Romney were to get in, it will be because Obama has left the door wide open for him.