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By Holly Bailey
"Americans know that we cannot afford to go back to the future," Biden said, speaking in a somber voice. "Back to a foreign policy that would have America go it alone, shout to the world 'You're either with us or against us,' lash out first and ask the hard questions later, if at all."
But Biden challenged Romney's views, suggesting the former Massachusetts governor sees the world "through a Cold War prism." In his remarks at NYU, Biden said Romney's views would "isolate America instead of enemies ... waste hundreds of billions of dollars and risk thousands of American lives on an unnecessary war."
[Related: Romney shifts focus to Obama, vowing to unveil a 'better America' if elected]
"That kind of thinking may work for a CEO, but it will not work as a president ... not as a commander in chief," Biden said.
By Holly Bailey
Biden (Steve Helber/AP)Vice
President Joe Biden says Mitt Romney's foreign policy views are
dangerous and "totally out of touch" with the American people and could
potentially lead a war-weary nation back "to the past we have worked so
hard to move beyond."
Speaking at New York University,
Biden linked the presumptive Republican nominee to the policies of
former President George W. Bush, suggesting Romney's policies get the
country back "into the mess President Obama has dug us out of."
He accused Romney of having a "profound misunderstanding" of how
American foreign policy works and said he's embraced "dangerous and
discredited policies" that could put the country in "danger.""Americans know that we cannot afford to go back to the future," Biden said, speaking in a somber voice. "Back to a foreign policy that would have America go it alone, shout to the world 'You're either with us or against us,' lash out first and ask the hard questions later, if at all."
Romney, Biden declared, is
counting on the "collective amnesia" of the country and suggested the
presumptive GOP nominee hasn't been upfront with the American people
about what exactly he would do if elected.
"Where does Gov. Romney stand?
How would he protect our security?" Biden asked. "What would Gov. Romney
do? The truth is, we don't know for certain. ... To the extent he's
shown any foreign policy vision, it's through the glass of a rearview
mirror."
Biden's remarks, one in a series of
policy speeches he's delivered around the country in recent weeks, takes
aim at what will be one of Romney's key talking points about his 2012
bid: that he'll keep the country safer than Obama, whom he has accused
of implementing a naive foreign policy that has diminished the United
States and alienated its allies.But Biden challenged Romney's views, suggesting the former Massachusetts governor sees the world "through a Cold War prism." In his remarks at NYU, Biden said Romney's views would "isolate America instead of enemies ... waste hundreds of billions of dollars and risk thousands of American lives on an unnecessary war."
Biden accused Romney of engaging
in "loose talk" about war with Iran that is unsettling to the world's
oil markets and said the presumptive nominee had regularly
"misrepresented" Obama's efforts to halt Tehran's efforts to obtain a
nuclear weapon, arguing the White House had offered "tough diplomacy"
and "smart leadership" on the issue.
He said Romney had flip-flopped on key foreign policy issues
including setting a timeline for troop withdrawal in Afghanistan. And he
attacked Romney's past comments that he would "outsource" foreign
policy to the State Department.[Related: Romney shifts focus to Obama, vowing to unveil a 'better America' if elected]
"That kind of thinking may work for a CEO, but it will not work as a president ... not as a commander in chief," Biden said.
At the same time, the vice
president offered a passionate defense of the Obama administration's
foreign policy record. He said the president had acted "boldly" when
dealing with global threats and had "decimated" al-Qaida's leadership.
He insisted Obama's foreign policy record was the "strongest" in a
decade.
"If you are looking for a bumper
sticker to sum up how President Obama has handled what we inherited,
it's pretty simple: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is
alive," Biden said.
He said the president had moved
to end an unpopular war in Iraq and had passed policies to end
water-boarding and other interrogation measures that have been described
as torture.
"We don't have to choose between protecting our country and living our values," Biden said.
Unsurprisingly, the Romney
campaign disputed the vice president's views. In a conference call held
shortly before Biden's remarks, Dan Senor, a Romney foreign policy
adviser, accused Biden of perpetuating a "fantasy narrative" about
Obama's foreign policy record.
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