Mitt Romney has said that he and Benjamin Netanyahu would employ the same “test” for Iran’s nuclear program, but that a strike was “a long way” off. Speaking to CNN on Oct. 9, the US Republican presidential candidate said: “My own test is that Iran should not have the capability of producing a nuclear weapon….
President Obama has led “from behind” on the Middle East, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney charged in a foreign policy speech. Romney, in a speech Monday at the Virginia Military Institute, said the attacks last month in Libya that left four American diplomats dead “were the deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose…
Iran would currently need at least two to four months to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for one nuclear bomb, and additional time to make the device itself, a U.S. security institute said on Monday. Estimates of how quickly Iran could enrich its uranium to the fissile level required for bombs are closely watched as they…
Republican candidate Mitt Romney came out swinging Monday at President Obama’s foreign policy, promising to end any “daylight” between the United States and Israel and a tough stance toward Iran. Speaking at the Virginia Military Institute, Romney sought to present Obama’s Middle East policy and his response to the Arab Spring as lacking leadership. As…
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered a sweeping critique of President Barack Obama’s handling of threats in the Middle East on Monday in a foreign policy address in which he tried to present himself as a credible mainstream alternative. Romney departed from his focus on the U.S. economy to talk about how he would handle…
In this week’s podcast, fill-in host Paul Berger is joined by Forward staff writer Josh Nathan-Kazis who is currently reporting from Florida on how the Jewish community of South Florida is seeing the impending presidential election. Then, Forward editor Jane Eisner drops by to discuss how some religious colleges are using federal money to fund…
I’m going to be honest here, I watch the Presidential Debates for pure amusement. And as Erin Gloria Ryan said over at Jezebel, last night’s debate may go down in history as the most boring 90 minutes ever aired on national television. This may be true but it wasn’t a complete waste of time. I…
At the Republican debate watch party in West Palm Beach, Florida, Romney supporters were exulting. At the Democratic debate watch party ten minutes away, Obama supporters were getting into shouting matches with Republicans. The Democratic event, hosted by the Obama campaign in Florida, was held at a sports bar on a main drag in downtown…
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