These contradictions leave one guessing at Romney's real intentions, especially since his team inclu

Instead, we saw two candidates tap-dance around the serious issues to appeal to voters who want their government to turn inward after a decade of conflict abroad. This country is in a world of trouble. Yet, with an eye on the polls, both candidates avoided any serious discussion 4 star hotel rome of the real challenges ahead.
The prime example of avoidance was Mitt Romney, whose stunning foreign-policy U-turn seemed designed to woo a war-weary public. Presumably Romney was trolling for women voters who still lean toward President Obama.
The Republican candidate tried to erase his former militarist image by morphing into a virtual clone of Obama on Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan. On the latter, Romney adopted Obama's position that we'll be out in 2014, full stop, without repeating his previous mantra that he'd listen to the military. (Neither candidate discussed what they'd do if Afghanistan then collapsed back into a jihadi state.)
However, Romney surpassed Obama on the peace front, repeatedly using the terms peace and peaceful , which Obama never uttered. "We can't kill our way out of this mess," he said of Iran, after previously endorsing a possible military strike on Tehran in the next six months.
These contradictions leave one guessing at Romney's real intentions, especially since his team includes foreign-policy advisers who touted the Iraq war and are gung ho for an Iran war. Certainly, the debate failed to clarify his real positions.
The importance of that code word probably eluded most listeners. "Capability" means Tehran has enriched a quantity of uranium that, if further enriched, could be used in a bomb. It does not mean that Iran has actually developed a weapon. "Capability" is the red line used by Romney's friend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who says Iran may have it in the next six months.
(Obama said that Tehran shouldn't be allowed 4 star hotel rome to produce an actual weapon and that "premature military action" would be mistaken. Top U.S. military officials, and many top Israeli security experts, agree with him.)
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