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applegrove

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Mon Oct 8, 2012, 09:55 PM Oct 2012

"Madeleine Albright finds Romney's foreign policy speech 'confusing'"

Madeleine Albright finds Romney's foreign policy speech 'confusing'

By Christi Parsons at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-madeleine-albright-romney-foreign-policy-20121008,0,3084590.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fpolitics+%28L.A.+Times+-+Politics%29

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In a conference call with reporters, Albright said she came away from his speech “confused” on a number of issues, including whether Romney would have intervened to help end the regime of Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi and if he would now arm the rebels in Syria.

“He has changed his mind on a number of issues,” said Albright, a veteran of the Clinton administration. Romney was first “for intervention” and is “now against,” she said, and she is “unclear where he is on Syria.”

“I thought I heard him say earlier that he would arm the rebels,” she said, and “now he’s just saying he might help them in some way.”

Romney has rolled out a lot of “rhetoric and things,” the former secretary said, but the lack of specifics suggests he doesn’t know “what the role of the U.S. is in the 21st century.”


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"Madeleine Albright finds Romney's foreign policy speech 'confusing'" (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2012 OP
Here's what she had to say about the role of the U.S. in the late 20th century. Wilms Oct 2012 #1
I don't she is only one confused????? imanamerican63 Oct 2012 #2
 

Wilms

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1. Here's what she had to say about the role of the U.S. in the late 20th century.
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 10:09 PM
Oct 2012
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084

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