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Questioner: When Carter was president, we had hostages. Ronald Reagan was able to make a statement even before he became, he was actually sworn in, and the hostages were released…
Mitt Romney: On the day of his inauguration.
Questioner: Right. So my question is really how can you sort of duplicate that scenario?
Romney: I could ask you, I could ask you how you do I duplicate that scenario?
Questioner: I think it had to do with the fact that the Iranians perceived Reagan… That’s why I’m suggesting that something that you say over the next few months gets the Iranians to understand that their pursuit of the bomb is something that you would prevent. And I think that’s something that could possibly resonate very well with the American public.
Romney: I appreciate the idea. One of the things that’s frustrating to me is that in a typical day like this, when I do three or four events like this, the number of foreign policy questions I get are between zero and one. And the American people are not concentrated at all on China, on Russia, Iran, Iraq. This President’s failure to put in place a status of forces agreement allowing ten to twenty thousand troops to stay in Iraq- unthinkable! And yet, in that election, in the Jimmy Carter election, the fact that we had hostages in Iran, I mean, that was all we talked about. And we had the two helicopters crash in the desert, I mean, that was the focus, and so him solving that made all the difference in the world. I’m afraid today that if you simply got Iran to agree to stand down on nuclear weapons, they’d go, “Now hold on. It’s really a-” I mean, if something of that nature presents itself I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.
Romney considers American hostages and dead servicemen trying to rescue them to be a potential 'opportunity'.
Well that is exactly what he did with the Libyan murders.
Could be even worse..... Obamas cracked out foreign policy has led to mass uprisings of radicals in the Middle East
If we had brought the troops home and not supported crazy extremists over there in the first place and cut off most aid to Israel, we wouldn't be in this situation
Well that is exactly what he did with the Libyan murders.
Yeah, I think this explains his mindset with the ambassador situation.
As craven as it is, he's not wrong. Something like that happening during an election is, indeed, an opportunity. But Libya wasn't really it. Or at least not the way he played it. He totally jumped the gun.
Wow he's hoping for a hostage crisis now. He's digging himself deeper and deeper. Now all that has to happen is someone leaking his tax returns which would prove he lied.
.... Obamas cracked out foreign policy has led to mass uprisings of radicals in the Middle East.
If we had brought the troops home and not supported crazy extremists over there in the first place and cut off most aid to Israel, we wouldn't be in this situation
Obamas policies are really no different than other US presidents. They need to learn to make deals and not to just throw money at tribal leaders. This is what the Europeans do at the tribal level.
Bringing home troops is easier said than done. Bush had tangled the US in so many tribal matters that untangling it without causing a civil/tribal war is nearly impossible. Think about it, we're still in Korea.
Sorry to tell you the crazy extremists are on both sides and Israel has nearly nothing to do with any Arab country. They use Israel as a diversion to keep people from dealing with their real issues.
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