Obama's foreign policy

The troops are coming home from Iraq.  Osama bin Laden is dead.  Anwar al-Awlaki is dead.  Muammar Qaddafi is dead.  Tunisia just held a free election.  The U.S. no longer tortures prisoners.  

Here’s what Romney said of President Obama’s foreign policy:  “If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your President.  You have that President today.”  

The United States is still the most powerful military power on earth, but international power rests on any number of variables, including economic strength (we’re in decline), moral leadership (we went way down under the Bush administration), energy independence (think about that), educational attainment (we are way behind a bunch of other countries), the health of its citizens (Cuba has a longer life expectancy), and the relative strength of other nations. 

Let’s look at global warming and population control.  Both China and India take climate change seriously.  They are developing countries, but they are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint.  In the U.S. we have a major political party that denies the whole concept.  Both India and China take population limitations seriously.  In the U.S. a major party denies that population increase is even an issue.

Under the circumstances, and given the material they have to work with, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have an amazingly successful record on foreign policy.  I shudder to think what President Romney would do, and he’s supposed to be the most reasonable of that lot.