on terrorism in 2006. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=273&topic_id=98771
The BG article in the OP is interesting and now that 5 years have passed, it is clear Kerry could not have been more on target - and David Wade was right in saying, "Mitt Romney's command of national security is about as real as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" (If you read down the thread, there are other links and some excellent anti-Romney facts from the MA people here.
In 2006, the Boston Herald went after Romney for leaving MA in the midst of devastating floods to go to Iraq and Afghanistan to get foreign policy creds - pointing out that it won't work -
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So there’s no way Gov. Mitt Romney isn’t going to take advantage of his last year in office to engage in this utterly shameless exercise - made all the more amusing by the attendant spin. The governor’s visit to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba a month ago was supposed to be a chance to update officials there on Massachusetts’ “best practices” in its prisons.
His current trip to Iraq and Afghanistan is “about seeing our men and women from Massachusetts” serving there, he said. Although he’ll also be stopping in Pakistan and getting some face time with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. All so at some appropriate moment he can say, “As I was saying to Hamid Karzai last time I was in Kabul. . .”
Of course, Sen. John Kerry could so one-up him on that score. In brief remarks last Friday to the New England Council, Kerry dropped enough names of foreign leaders to fill several rows of the U.N. General Assembly, including that of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Karzai (who was the star attraction at a Georgetown dinner party thrown by John and Teresa).
Although it is disappeared from the Boston Herald site - not even showing up as archived - it is saved in TAYTAY's post. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=88188&mesg_id=88266
Romney is smarter than Perry and Santorum, but he has very very little knowledge on foreign policy.
Kerry in 2010 also completely demolished Romney's stupid oped against START. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/blogs/the_angle/2010/12/new_start_debat.html?comments=all#readerComm ( from the comments, the BG buried this response - not including it in the published newspaper and not front paging it on line.)
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