"Just the Ticket" -- Obama/Clinton 2012 -- Bill Keller, New York Times -- 1/9/2012

[karynnj]

66. True - and with Romney, foreign policy will be a big advantage for the Democrats

Kerry and Hagel took a long trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2008 with Biden - where they were forced to land due to snow in the mountains. Supposedly, this was when the three of them designed a plan to try to improve relations with Pakistan that was a key part of the Obama Pakistan policy - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23279522

Other than Kerry, whose positions have often influenced Biden's, there are very few Democrats who got more right than Biden in recent years. The same can not be said of Romney.

For a DU JK discussion of Romney's very, very weak foreign policy knowledge, I gathered some DU2 links. Forgive the fact that all of these relate to times Kerry and Romney have fought on foreign policy - they were selected for the DU Jk group and because I could easily find them on DU2 JK. The oldest article from 2006, speaks of the the war on terror - and even then Kerry was speaking - as Biden did in 2007 - about Pakistan.

Here is what I wrote there:
Here is a Boston Globe article on Kerry and Romney sparring on terrorism in 2006. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=273&topic_id=98771

The BG article in the OP is interesting and now that 5 years have passed, it is clear Kerry could not have been more on target - and David Wade was right in saying, "Mitt Romney's command of national security is about as real as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" (If you read down the thread, there are other links and some excellent anti-Romney facts from the MA people here.

In 2006, the Boston Herald went after Romney for leaving MA in the midst of devastating floods to go to Iraq and Afghanistan to get foreign policy creds - pointing out that it won't work -
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So there’s no way Gov. Mitt Romney isn’t going to take advantage of his last year in office to engage in this utterly shameless exercise - made all the more amusing by the attendant spin. The governor’s visit to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba a month ago was supposed to be a chance to update officials there on Massachusetts’ “best practices” in its prisons.

His current trip to Iraq and Afghanistan is “about seeing our men and women from Massachusetts” serving there, he said. Although he’ll also be stopping in Pakistan and getting some face time with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. All so at some appropriate moment he can say, “As I was saying to Hamid Karzai last time I was in Kabul. . .”

Of course, Sen. John Kerry could so one-up him on that score. In brief remarks last Friday to the New England Council, Kerry dropped enough names of foreign leaders to fill several rows of the U.N. General Assembly, including that of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Karzai (who was the star attraction at a Georgetown dinner party thrown by John and Teresa).

Although it is disappeared from the Boston Herald site - not even showing up as archived - it is saved in TAYTAY's post. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=273&topic_id=88188&mesg_id=88266

Romney is smarter than Perry and Santorum, but he has very very little knowledge on foreign policy.

Kerry in 2010 also completely demolished Romney's stupid oped against START. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/blogs/the_angle/2010/12/new_start_debat.html?comments=all#readerComm ( from the comments, the BG buried this response - not including it in the published newspaper and not front paging it on line.)