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Barefootchuck Posted 14 years ago
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Of course, the trip did not end in Israel, and to add injury to his prior insults, his spokespersonhttp://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/07/31/romneys_aide_tells_reporters_to_kiss_my_ass.html a few choice expletives in the direction of Romney's press corps in Poland. Although this too might have been warranted, and while Rick Gorka is certainly not the first press aide to feel campaign journalists ought to kiss his ass or "shove it," he ought to have kept it to himself. He too should be fired.
Firing the foreign-policy team that advised Romney on this trip is not an extreme recommendation. That team is famously riven by divides -- between neocons and moderates, between Boston and Washington, between political advisors and policy wonks. They're the ones who had him frame U.S.-Russian relations in terms suitable for the height of the Cold War. In fact, on a regular basis, they have been promoting the kind of Tarzan America policies that are a throwback to an era for which no one except defense contractors has any nostalgia.
I didn't understand what does this sentence describe of Romney's foreign policy team. Somehow it frames Romney to say that either US-Russia should go back to the cold war relations? Or something else?
Thank you!
Firing the foreign-policy team that advised Romney on this trip is not an extreme recommendation. That team is famously riven by divides -- between neocons and moderates, between Boston and Washington, between political advisors and policy wonks. They're the ones who had him frame U.S.-Russian relations in terms suitable for the height of the Cold War. In fact, on a regular basis, they have been promoting the kind of Tarzan America policies that are a throwback to an era for which no one except defense contractors has any nostalgia.
I didn't understand what does this sentence describe of Romney's foreign policy team. Somehow it frames Romney to say that either US-Russia should go back to the cold war relations? Or something else?
Thank you!
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The writer is saying that Romney's foreign policy vis-a-vis Russia is like America's stance toward Russia during the darkest days of the Cold War, and that his team is responsible for creating that backward policy.
- The writer is saying that Romney's foreign policy vis-a-vis Russia is like America's stance toward Russia during the darkest days of the Cold War, and that his team is responsible for creating that backward policy.
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The writer is saying that Romney's foreign policy vis-a-vis Russia is like America's stance toward Russia during the darkest days of the Cold War, and that his team is responsible for creating that backward policy.
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barefootchuckI didn't understand howThe team advised him to speak of the relations between the U.S. and Russia as if we were still living during the worst days of the Cold Wwhat doesthis sentence was describing Romney's foreign policy team.
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