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>>> well, mitt romney is hoping to amplify his criticisms of the administration's middle east policy and bolster his own credentials and it's a speech two weeks before the october 22nd foreign policy debate. joining me now is richard williamson , he's a senior foreign policy adviser to the romney campaign. in fact, i'm told the guy that sort of keeps all of the various groups together or at least from fighting too much. thanks for coming on this morning.
>> thanks for having me.
>> let me start with a simple question here. how is the romney doctrine on foreign policy going to be different from the bush doctrine ?
>> well, first of all, doctrine is a phrase that professors apply afterwards. his approach, but his approach to foreign policy , that's, that's what this speech is about. that's the big choice that the american people have on the economy. you've got these crippling deficits, anemic jobs. you've got romney 's plan to reverse that. on foreign affairs , you've got a failed foreign policy . yes, they've done more drone attacks, which is good. yes, osama bin laden is dead, which is good. but whether you deal with russia, china or throughout the broader middle east , you have a disaster. we saw that in the killing of the american ambassador in benghazi and a fundamental misunderstanding.
>> i want to get to some other issues. i want to get to larger question, which is what is a romney foreign policy ? what is going to be different about it than president bush 's? less sort of the quote unquote freedom agenda?
>> what you're going to have is a foreign policy that's been in the bipartson tradition of strength from kennedy and beyond. one that believes you need a strong economy. you need to have leadership. america's better off and the world is better off when america leads as "the washington post " editorial said today. there's a vacuum in syria. there's a vacuum in the middle east and forces unfriendly to the united states that have other interests. extremists are filling that vacuum much to our disadvantage and that you need to use our values. this has to go together in a coherent strategy.
>> sounds like a return to foreign policy realism if you will. if that's the case, that's what president obama 's been doing.
>> two things, first, president obama hasn't done that. look at how he has handled iran as it approaches nuclear breakout. a huge advance to nuclear break outand the president's policies have failed.
>> so, what would have been different? you're calling for --
>> you've got 30,000 people that are dead --
>> ambassador -- you're calling -- it's my understanding governor romney 's going to call for more sanctions though. would president romney be militarily trying to stop iran ?
>> well, there's two things i want to point out. you're trying to have romney versus bush, it's romney versus obama and you're saying the om difference is war, which is not true. what you need is resolution, working closely with allies, yes, put more pressure on and make clear that a nuclear iran is unacceptable. as we're closer to a nuclear bre breakout in iran than when obama came to office. why? he wanted to engage. he was quiet during the green revolution while tens of thousands were ash tearily arrested, beaten and some killed. we continued to seek negotiations. he resisted stronger sanctions. in fact, when senator mendez and senator kirk suggested tougher sanctions, obama opposed them. it was only after congress forced him to that he went forward and he's allowed the u.n. security council , russia and china to determine our policy. all these are acts of weaknesses as opposed to making clear and we haven't worked closely with our allies as evidence by the recent u.n. meeting when the president had time for whoopi goldberg but couldn't meet with netanyahu.
>> one of the criticisms, this appears to be management of the arab spring. that is a big part. does governor romney think it was a mistake to push mubarak out?
>> what he has said is that we have forces that are of extreme extremism and forces of moderation an we should be aligned and help those forces. a difference in egypt is one that's on the table today. governor romney says we should have conditions. we shouldn't write off a billion dollar debt.
>> but going back to mubarak . was that a mistake? does governor romney believe that's a mistake?
>> how it was handled was a mistake.
>> pushing mubarak out was a mistake?
>> let me give you the answer. first of all, for two years, president obama cut support of u.s. assistance for democracy and civil society in egypt , so those who went to tahrir square saw that the united states wasn't on their side. that was a mistake. two, when the revolt began, joe biden said that mubarak was a democrat. the secretary of state said we're with him and he's a reformer. by the time the u.s. took its position, the demonstrators had been in tahrir square for days, there had been police crackdowns and when we said it was time for mubarak to go, the the reformers had been begun to be crowded out by extremist elements. yes, there's a big difference between anticipating and leading versus not leading, reacting, cutting our traditional support for democracy. that's the record of president obama and that contributed to the mess.
>> so, you're saying he should have pushed mubarak out, but done it differently or he shouldn't have done that?
>> the people in a country, reagan once said that we should support the march of freedom, but we can't determine its pace. the people in the country determine the pace of the march of freedom. it's humorous to suggest that the united states can determine this, but we should be clear we're on the side of the forces of freedom. we failed that test. president obama failed that test in iran and in egypt for two years plus before mubarak left.
>> more to get to, but have to leave it there. thanks for coming on this
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