 AP Photo Romney chose to criticize President Obama for seeking to cut a bloated Defense Department and for not being bellicose enough in the Middle East, two assertions with which I cannot agree. TAGGED: U.S Department of Defense, defense spending, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Middle East, Mitt Romney, 2012, Rand Paul, United StatesRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| The worst message we can send right now to Middle Easterners is that their future is all bound up in what we do. It is not. The Arab-Muslim world has rarely been more complicated and more in need of radical new approaches by us -... more ›› |
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