Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" ( Originally Posted by AspiringGenius ) Meh I don't like Romney but I'm sure he was talking about having a greater leadership over the US Military rather than conveying an imperialist message to the region. It's more a misphrasing In the same speech he said he wanted to arm the Syrian rebels. I'm pretty sure it was an imperialistic speech. Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" Yeah, the ME want's US leadership like they want to drink a shot of concentrated acid! ( Originally Posted by AspiringGenius ) Meh I don't like Romney but I'm sure he was talking about having a greater leadership over the US Military rather than conveying an imperialist message to the region. It's more a misphrasing You can't really get much more imperialist than having your military occupying territory in a different region. Well, you could install proxy governments and dictatorships... Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" ( Originally Posted by AspiringGenius ) I agree the occupation of territory there is imperialist, I just don't think this was meant to be a war mongering threat. Given Romney's other foreign policy statements regarding Israel-Palestine, China, Russia etc, it's certainly not passive, and I think he literally means the US taking charge and throwing its weight around. His foreign policy at the moment seems