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[Mariner*]

He's too busy reading the Neocon manual for talking points in keeping the U.S.A. in the middle east, indefinitely, in ongoing wars one right after the other until nuclear weapons are involved, and then the REAL fun begins.

Iran is backed by two nuclear powers, China & Russia.
Don't think for a minute that if we get into a military confrontation with Iran, that is more than just a minor skirmish that they will not magically come into the possession of nuclear armaments with the express purpose to use them against our military strike force.
Multiple Nuclear tipped missiles coming inbound from different directions, one is bound to get through, and it only take one to sink an entire carrier with ancillary damage to it's strike force.

It would be a nightmare, and it's in the foreseeable future if Romney gets elected.
This guy makes the grim reaper look like the tooth fairy.

[Mariner*]

Romney Strives to Stand Apart in Global Policy
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: October 8, 2012

But beyond his critique of Mr. Obama as failing to project American strength abroad, Mr. Romney has yet to fill in many of the details of how he would conduct policy toward the rest of the world, or to resolve deep ideological rifts within the Republican Party and his own foreign policy team. It is a disparate and politely fractious team of advisers that includes warring tribes of neoconservatives, traditional strong-defense conservatives and a band of self-described “realists” who believe there are limits to the degree the United States can impose its will.

Each group is vying to shape Mr. Romney’s views, usually through policy papers that many of the advisers wonder if he is reading. Indeed, in a campaign that has been so intensely focused on economic issues, some of these advisers, in interviews over the past two weeks in which most insisted on anonymity, say they have engaged with him so little on issues of national security that they are uncertain what camp he would fall into, and are uncertain themselves about how he would govern.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/us/politics/romney-remains-vague-on-foreign-policy-details.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=politics

Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Speech at the Virginia Military Institute 10/8/2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KKYMBG3I74