Op-ed:

Channeling Ronald Reagan

By: Diane Sori

”It is clear that the risk of conflict in the region is higher now than when the president took office” said Mitt Romney about Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s first term in office.

The man who promised that relations with Arab countries would improve if he was elected president back in 2008 has proven that promise to be yet another disaster on his watch.

With less than a month to go until the election, Barack HUSSEIN Obama is now laying out a desperate campaign strategy of painting Mitt Romney as a liar while Mitt Romney is staying focused on the important issues of the economy and foreign affairs, as he lets Obama be his own worst enemy.

Seizing the political momentum gained from his knockout of Obama at last week’s debate, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy speech yesterday was a focused and targeted assessment of the Obama initiated policies in the Middle East, especially of his failed Arab Spring which has set the region on fire.

Stressing the fact that the recent attacks are evidence that al-Qaeda remains strong, all while looking and sounding like another Ronald Reagan, Mitt Romney raised important questions about how this administration handled, or should I say mishandled, foreign policy, especially in light of last month’s attack in Benghazi that resulted in the murders of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, his Information Officer, and two ex-Navy SEALS.

"The attacks on America last month should not be seen as random acts," Romney said. "They are expressions of a larger struggle that is playing out across the broader Middle East, a region that is now in the midst of the most profound upheaval in a century.”

How right he is as country after country is falling into the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, and a resurgent Taliban.

Not good...NOT good at all.

"I know the president hopes for a safer, freer and a more prosperous Middle East allied with the United States," Romney said. "I share this hope. But hope is not a strategy."

No it is not...never has been, never will be, for under the policies of Barack HUSSEIN Obama hope is nothing but an empty four-letter word.

“This president’s poor excuse of a strategy for the Middle East has been one of passivity and indifference,” Romney said, stating that he would be aggressive and dominant, including placing even tougher sanctions and more on Iran, and allowing for "no flexibility with Vladimir Putin" over missile defense.

As it should be for you NEVER stand down to your enemies nor give them flexibility in any matters of our national defense.

Romney promised his administration would garner “peace through strength” and that he would NEVER ‘lead from behind’ saying, "It is the responsibility of our president to use America's great power to shape history, not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events. Unfortunately, that is exactly where we find ourselves in the Middle East under President Obama."

How right he is for leading from behind is NOT leading at all.  In fact, ‘leading from behind’ is an open invitation for the enemy to come get you, because instead of fighting the message has been sent that you will back down.  

So has been the case with Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

And as the response to Romney’s speech from ‘Team Obama’ starts coming in, all negative of course and saying that Romney’s speech lacked substance and nuance, foreign policy analyst Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, praised Romney for ‘raising the profile of foreign policy issues’ and for creating a counterbalance to those wanting us to pull back from around the world.

“I like the tone of patience and engagement even if I may disagree on certain specific substantive matters,” O’Hanlon said on Fox News after Romney’s speech.  “What Governor Romney has done is make it easier to debate on both sides in terms of what are the next steps we need to take as Americans.”

This is exactly how Ronald Reagan won against Jimmy Carter...debating on substantive matters and standing strong for America by NEVER backing down or apologizing for American ideals and values, nor disparaging American exceptionslism.

So with this amazing Reagan-like foreign policy speech behind him, and with his unquestionable win of debate one, very presidential looking and sounding Mitt Romney is poised to be the next leader of the free world as he steamrolls over the Obama political machine.  A reinvigorated and energized Romney campaign has given ‘We the People’ true hope that our beloved America can and will be saved from the man who sides with America’s enemies...the man out to fundamentally change her into something unrecognizable to us...the man named Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

"The 21st century must be an American century" said Mitt Romney and I can’t wait to pull the lever for him on November 6^th to help make that happen.