Top Ten Mitt Romney Insults to Spain: Juan Cole

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Mitt Romney has caused a tiff with Spain by saying that its economic crisis was caused by government over-spending and saying he doesn't want the US to end up like Spain. The Spanish are bewildered, since Romney's charge (like most of the things he said in last week's debate) is simply untrue. So here are the top ten lessons we can draw from Romney's ongoing War on Europe:

1.Mitt Romney is the least diplomatic politician in America, having by now managed to imply that the British might not be up to hosting the Olympics, that Russia is our Enemy No. 1, that the Palestinians do not exist, and that Spain's economic woes come from budget deficits.

2.omney doesn't know anything about Europe's economic crisis, since in fact Spain's government ran lower deficits than most European countries in the run-up to the 2008 crisis.