Mitt Romney's return to a Reaganite foreign policy is necessary for Washington and America's allies

Republican View: 

We need a Reaganite foreign policy

John Bolton, former US Ambassador to the United Nations and foreign policy adviser to the Romney campaign, October 2012 - The World Today, Volume 68, Number 8/9

John Bolton argues that Obama’s failure to exert power has left the US vulnerable

Barack Obama has always been a comfort to European social democrats, given how similar their philosophies are, domestically and internationally. But in American terms, he is a radical president, and a failed one. A second term would be worse, as vividly evidenced in his famous ‘off microphone’ conversation with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Obama pleaded for ‘space’ before the US election, after which he would have more ‘flexibility’ towards Russia. 

This spectacle of an American president negotiating on his own behalf rather than for his country is deeply troubling. Equally troubling is Obama’s failure to understand the vital nexus between an internationally strong America and sustained domestic prosperity. Global stability, a prerequisite for trade, investment, communications and travel, is hardly spontaneous. What stability we have depends on the visibility and strength of America and its alliance partners, especially NATO.

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