September 20, 2012

The Decline of Republican Foreign Policy

David Rohde, The Atlantic

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The release on Tuesday of Mitt Romney's surreptitiously recorded comments on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict confirmed a sad truth about today's Republican party. The GOP has gone from the party of strategic foreign engagement to the party of simplistic chauvinism.

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