ROMNEY THREATERN'S Iran & backs SYRIAN REBELS in FOREIGN policy SPEECH [ARM the OPPOSITION!]

	ROMNEY THREATERN'S Iran & backs SYRIAN REBELS in FOREIGN policy SPEECH [ARM the OPPOSITION!] The Republican presidential challenger told voters the US must spend more, not less, on defence and effectively fight a proxy war against Iran by ensuring Syrian anti-government forces "obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad's tanks, helicopters, and fighter jets". "Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them," Mr Romney said in a speech in Virginia. "We should be working no less vigorously through our international partners to support the many Syrians who would deliver that defeat to Iran -- rather than sitting on the sidelines." The former Massachusetts governor did not, however, specify which rebel factions should be armed, nor if the US should arm them directly or facilitate supply by allies. Diverging from prepared remarks, he said the US should work "through" its global partners, rather than "with". Mr Romney quoted a Syrian woman's comments to a National Public Radio interview to sum up the likely response to Washington's failure to act on the killing of 30000 civilians. "We will not forget that you forgot about us," she said. Senator John McCain, a longtime advocate of US intervention in Syria and Mr Obama's opponent in 2008, hailed Mr Romney's speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute as "a blueprint for restoring America's strength in the world". Mr Romney consistently trails Mr Obama in polls on foreign policy, reversing a typical Republican advantage. However his national post-debate "bounce <b>...</b>	From: GlobalCrisisNews Views: 202 2 ratings
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