Ayoon Wa Azan (The Comparison Between Romney and Others Is a Scary One)

The primary elections to choose the Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency started on 13/1/2012 in Iowa, and will end on the 26th of June, this month, in Utah. The needed number of votes to win at the Republican National Convention next August is 11444, which was secured by Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, when he won Texas’s votes by default on May 29th. I am writing on the morning of Tuesday, before the voting begins in a new round of the primaries in five states, led by California. Since the outcome has already been determined, then I can speak about Romney as being the bona fide Republican candidate, and I shan’t have to wait for any results, given the time difference between London and New York. Personally, all I am concerned about regarding Romney is his foreign policy, specifically his policy on the Middle East, which I addressed in several previous articles, and shall return to today with Romney having guaranteed the Republican nomination. In one word, Romney’s foreign policy will be a disaster for the Arabs and Muslims. To be sure, it is an extremist rightwing policy that seeks to impose an American empire, or imperialism, on the world, like the one once dreamt up by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and which ended bankrupting the U.S. economically, with the United States having yet to recover from the financial crisis that it started; militarily, with the United States having lost all its wars, and morally, having falsified the premises for wars and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people, mostly civilians. Is it possible for any U.S. president to pursue a policy that is even worse than that of George W. Bush? The questions seems impossible, however, I dare say that Mitt Romney’s own statements condemn once in this vein, while his advisers who will become his administration’s senior staff if he wins condemn him twice, in the same vein. Indeed, around 70 percent of them had worked in the Bush administration which had caused the economic, military and moral bankruptcy I elaborated on above. A comparison between Romney and others is a scary one, and I hope that the reader will trust that I am quoting the candidate himself and his advisers, as well as material that has been published in the media and think tanks, and was denied by no one. Ronald Reagan, who was afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease while he was president, entered into an alliance with Margaret Thatcher. This duo was then replicated with George W. Bush and Tony Blair in the first decade of this century. But is it known who will be the second party in such a duo with Mitt Romney? Believe it or not, it will be Benjamin Netanyahu. In other words, the new symbol of the neoconservatives will hold an alliance with a racist fascist terrorist and war criminal. That is, the United States, the pioneer of human rights, will hold an alliance with Israel, which has stolen the rights of the Palestinian people, and which has no right to exist on the land of Palestine to begin with. Mitt Romney visited Israel, and is in constant contact with ‘Bibi’. Like the latter, he wants to wage an American-Israeli war on Iran. Nay, Romney even supports settlement building and the settlers. Thus, the new Special Relationship will be between America and Israel, and not America and Britain. Can the reader believe that John Bolton, a Jewish American Likudnik extremist, and a member of one of the most despicable wings of the neocons, is being proposed as the possible Secretary of State in Romney’s administration, should Romney win the race to the White House? Personally, I will never visit America should its Secretary of State be an extremist like John Bolton. Other policies championed by Romney include: - Prolonging the war in Afghanistan until the Taliban is defeated – something that the United States has failed to accomplish in 11 years, and I have no idea how Romney believes he can achieve this. - Russia is the number one geopolitical enemy of the United States. - The Romney administration will go into a trade war with China. - Romney accuses Barack Obama of wanting to make the United States like Europe, as if this is a real accusation. What he means is that Obama will relinquish America’s role in leading the world. Finally, there is something in the U.S. called Super PACs, or political action committees, such as American Crossroads. These PACs control hundreds of millions of dollars, some coming from Likdunik Jewish Americans who support the Netanyahu government and the occupation, and they are all supporting Romney. I will say no more. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arabstoday.