5 Facts To Commit To Memory Before Tonight’s Foreign Policy Debate
5 Facts To Commit To Memory Before Tonights Foreign Policy Debate
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will debate foreign policy tonight. Weve chronicled Romneys foreign policy positions throughout the campaign here and below are five facts we think you should have on hand during tonights third and final presidential debate:
1. New reporting finds that protest against anti-Islam video played role in Benghazi attacks. Facts have been lost in the Republicans scramble to politicize the attacks in Libya last month that killed three Americans. It turns out that, according to the latest reports, theres no evidence that the attack was ordered by al Qaeda and the attack grew out of a protest against a video disparaging the Prophet Mohammed.
2. Romney harshly criticized Obamas pledge to send U.S. troops into Pakistan to get Osama bin Laden. In 2007, Romney attacked Obama for saying hed order U.S. forces into Pakistan to kill or capture bin Laden, just like he did in May, 2011. I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours, Romney said in 2007. The former Massachusetts governor also said in 2007 referring to bin Laden: Its not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.
3. Iran is not enriching weapons-grade uranium. Iran is currently enriching low-grade uranium (against the demands of the United Nations), but Israeli and U.S. intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency all agree that Iran has yet to decide on whether to build nuclear weapons and enrich to the high grade needed for bomb. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the U.S. and the international community would know if Iran makes that decision and that it would take a little more than a year to construct a nuclear device.
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Full article with the rest of the list here:
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/22/1051471/5-factsforeign-policy-debate/