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Romney Outsources His Foreign Policy to the Neoconservatives

Calvin Trillin

October 3, 2012

“After 9/11, the neocons captured one Republican president who was naïve about the world. Now…they have captured another would-be Republican president and vice president, both jejune about the world.”       —Maureen Dowd, The New York Times   Advisers to Mitt from the neocon right Believe that America must show its might. Though draft dodgers all, they’re in favor of force— With other folks’ kids on the front lines, of course. Through Romney’s campaign, they have all slithered back— The people who brought you the war in Iraq.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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