An aggressive President Obama came out swinging at Monday night’s final debate in Boca Raton, Fla., walloping Mitt Romney as naive, inexperienced, dangerously hawkish, and consistently inconsistent on foreign policy.
Meanwhile, the Republican presidential nominee accused Obama of going on an “apology tour” and being “reckless” since taking office, which has in turn made America more unsafe than ever before.
In the beginning of the 90-minute slugfest, Obama launched an assault on Romney’s foreign policy, ripping the former Massachusetts governor for operating on an antiquated Cold War mentality.
“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back,” said Obama, referring to Romney’s statement that America’s biggest geopolitical foe is Russia. “Governor, when it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.”
Time and again, Obama portrayed Romney as lacking foreign policy know-how. After Romney claimed that Obama’s Navy is too small, the president shot back:
You mention the Navy, and how we have fewer ships than 1916,” Obama said. “We also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military has changed. “We have aircraft carriers; we have ships that go underwater; nuclear submarines. And so the question is not a game of ‘Battleship’ where we’re counting ships. It’s, what are our capabilities?
Romney, in turn, criticized Obama’s handling of the Arab Spring.
“We can’t kill our way out of this mess,” Romney said, pointing to 30,000 deaths during a bloody civil war in Syria, not to mention the Sept. 11 attack at the U.S. consulate Libya.
On Afghanistan, Romney seemed to change his tune, saying he backed the president’s plan to pull U.S. troops out of the country by the end of 2014. He had previously ripped Obama for setting a timeline for ending the war.









