Mitt Romney: A comedy of Errors

As I announced on Facebook, regardless of the importance Americans put on foreign policy…. Mitt Romney has now officially LOST the foreign policy debate. NPR reports him as being risk-averse, tight-lipped, always knowing what to say, and self-monitored. Yet on his last foreign trip to Poland, the UK, and Israel, he has been anything but. Instead, he has created risks. He has also said “America doesn’t apologize.” For one who says that America will say it is sorry, but won’t apologize—a quote that I think refers to America admitting its mistakes, but not apologizing for its greatness—he has done an awful lot of “saying sorry.”

We’ll begin with the UK. In the UK in an NBC interview, he openly wondered if the UK was “ready” for the Olympics. First of all, this is sort of a sound bite; his real quote was something along the lines of “Will the UK accept the Olympics culturally as their own.” The result was that the United Kingdom was sent into a fury, sparking headlines such as “Mitt the Twit.” Even London’s Mayor got mad and was determined to prove Mitt Romney wrong. On to Poland, if I remember that rightly, where another gaffe was committed.

In Poland, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Romney was being harried by the press, who was wondering what he had to say about his many gaffes. A Romney advisor went over to the reporters, told them that it was a “Holy site” and t give Romney room and respect—and then proceeded to tell the reporters, asking incessant questions, to “kiss my [butt].” And the disaster was only in its second chapter.

The final chapter we will stop by is in Israel. Mitt Romney first said that Jerusalem was the capital of the country; it’s not; it is Tel Aviv. Next, he was asked why the Palestinians were worse off than Israelis. He injected himself into the debate way before he was even going to be President (if elected), and attributed this to “cultural differences.” Oh, but wait, there is more! In addition to this, the bright spot was that he takes a pro-Israeli stance, yet the Jewish Americans in our country still like Obama!

The end result is this all adds up to a comedy (or tragedy if you’re on his side) of errors that seem to lead to the conclusion that Mitt Romney, though he may be a very bright man, doesn’t have the slightest idea of how to censor himself, much let alone have the common sense to avoid touchy matters. This is why I think Mitt Romney has lost the foreign policy debate.