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We can only guess at what Romney would do.
President Obama, he gave the warning, loaded the gun, aimed the gun, put his finger to the trigger and then put the gun down.
President Kennedy made Khrushchev blink over nuclear missles. Assad made President Obama blink.
Can it be any more clear that Republican opposition to limited strikes in Syria is based on nothing more than political opportunism? They were all for this a year ago and now have only changed their mind simply because Obama is now for it. Dishonesty and double talk is the hallmark of the modern Republican Party. It's nice to see at least one conservative publication is still honest enough to admit it.
Who the hell cares what either Romney or McCain would have done. They lost didn't they.
Romney never struck me as a "Line In The Sand" kind of guy so he would not have the issue to contend with now. He is a businessman. He would definitely take the cost (not just money) into consideration before he popped off about threats he was either unwilling or unable to follow up on.
Think of yourself as a businessman with a lot of people owing you money. You send them a nasty letter that says, "If you don't pay your bills, by next Wednesday, we'll take your car." You then realize that it will cost you more money to confiscate the cars than what is actually owed to you. Wednesday comes and goes and the delinquent bill payers still have their car. They laugh. Your threat had no teeth. Is the correct action to save your reputation and take the cars anyway even though it's going to cost you a bundle? Or, back down and be laughed at. Either way you don't win.
Now the President thinks he has to show some teeth no matter what it costs but he wouldn't be in the position he was in if he didn't make idle threats. He's really unwilling. But if he gets Congress to bless his action then they get the blame and that's one thing Obama is good at.
Like in the movie War Games, the correct action for Congress is not to play.
And YET - he was the Republican candidate for President. The one that the Republican party chose to represent them. The one that made it through the gauntlet of primaries. The ONE, according to the poster above, that would have cause Assad to magically become a great leader.
Which still does not make Romney the candidate of "the right"
I would hope that even a liberal republican like Romney would have used diplomacy.
One big problem is that all Obama intends to do is bomb the hell out of something for a few days. He's already announced that it would be a limited strike, and by now Assad should have relocated the targets. And we're only going to bomb them for short time. Then we'll stop. If Assad is killed, there is no plan, if Assad survives, he can just go back to doing things as usual.
The Al Queda rebels that Obama is supporting are not one iota better than the current regime.
Maybe if O weren't President, there wouldn't have been revolutions all across Northern Africa and the Middle East to begin with. No 'Arab Spring', no Syrian situation.
Yet the title and entire premise of the thread is: "On Syria, what would Romney have done"?
This is why all the speculating is going on. We are responding to the OP's question.
Good point, but it's clear that there appears to be a concerted "what about Romney!!" now they way it's always about the EvilBushHitlerCheney that resides rent free in Obama's head.
Romney would send Donnie and Marie to Damascus to sing until one side, or both surrendered.
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