Romney:Would Increase Israel Military Aid And Defense Coordination, Recognize Israel As A Jewish State

GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a major foreign policy speech today at The Citadel, the military college in South Carolina and got a warm reception from the cadets and faculty there as he criticized what he called the Obama administration's "feckless policies of the last three years."

"I believe we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world," Romney said, with an audience of cadets sitting behind him. "Not exceptional, as the president has derisively said, in the way that the British think Great Britain is exceptional or the Greeks think Greece is exceptional. In Barack Obama’s profoundly mistaken view, there is nothing unique about the United States."

"I will reverse President Obama’s massive defense cuts," he said. "I will begin reversing Obama-era cuts to national missile defense and prioritize the full deployment of a multilayered national ballistic missile defense system."

"I will bolster and repair our alliances," he said. "Our friends should never fear that we will not stand by them in an hour of need. I will reaffirm as a vital national interest Israel’s existence as a Jewish state."

"Will Iran be a fully activated nuclear weapons state, threatening its neighbors, dominating the world’s oil supply with a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz?" he asked. "In the hands of the ayatollahs, a nuclear Iran is nothing less than an existential threat to Israel. Iran’s suicidal fanatics could blackmail the world. "By 2015, will Israel be even more isolated by a hostile international community? Will those who seek Israel’s destruction feel emboldened by American ambivalence? Will Israel have been forced to fight yet another war to protect its citizens and its right to exist?"

Romney also addressed the Iranian threat. He said that as president he would "enhance our deterrent against the Iranian regime by ordering the regular presence of aircraft carrier task forces, one in the Eastern Mediterranean and one in the Persian Gulf region. I will begin discussions with Israel to increase the level of our military assistance and coordination. And I will again reiterate that Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is unacceptable."

"I will not surrender America’s role in the world," he said. "This is very simple. If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your president. You have that president today" he said, to cheers from the audience.

Yesterday, Romney released his list of foreign policy advisers and it contained more good news. The list includes author and think tank inhabitant Robert Kagan,Eliot Cohen, the director of the strategic studies program at Johns Hopkins University, former CIA director Michael Hayden, career diplomat and former aid to Vice President Dick Cheney Eric Edelman, Norm Coleman, the former Republican senator from Minnesota, former State Department Policy Planning Chief and North Korea expert Mitchell Reiss, Middle East author and former terrorist Walid Phares, and the Heritage Foundation’s Kim Holmes. These are all serious thinkers who have been outspoken about the Iranian threat, America's military deterrence and yes, improving our relationship with Israel and our other allies.

This is a very welcome development, as it shows that Governor Romney has been doing some serious thinking about foreign policy and has attracted some first class like minds.

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