ON Monday in Virginia Mitt Romney finally made the speech on foreign policy which he had promised for May or June. The delay is understandable because Mr Romney changes his policies from week to week, if not from day to day. On Monday he pledged commitment to a prosperous Palestinian state living in security with the Jewish state of Israel. Can this refer to the same situation about which he said in May that a two state solution is almost unthinkable? What has changed between May and October? Also in May, as the world now knows, Mr Romney insulted and demeaned 47 per cent of the American people, but last week he had second thoughts and said I was wrong. Again, what happened to change his mind? If he can make such egregious errors and take months to apologise for them how can Mitt Romney be taken seriously as a presidential candidate? How many of his policies outlined this week will have changed by polling day in November?
In the briefing before Romney's speech on Monday his Director of Foreign Policy, Alex Wong, said that the aim was restoration of a strategy that served us well for 70 years.
Would that be the strategy that led to the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, each of which has failed to achieve its objective and cost countless lives? More of the same, Mr Romney?
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