P.J. Crowley, former assistant secretary of state for public affairs in the Obama administration, explains how foreign policy has become a major issue in the presidential race and critiques Mitt Romney’s Wall Street Journal op-ed calling for “a new strategy toward the Middle East.”
“There is a strategy — that strategy is building up, you know, turning the opposition that overthrew Gadhafi into a functioning government and helping that government grow popular support. That will take time,” Crowley says. “So there is a strategy, but I think where Romney gets it wrong is that that strategy will depend most significantly on what happens inside these countries. It’s not about imposing a solution from the outside.”
