“Come On, Mitt, Think!”

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is skeptical of Mitt Romney’s choice of foreign policy advisers. He feels they are too far to the right and has advised Romney to use his own judgment.

As the Republican candidate for president, Mitt Romney may not like hearing that advice, but he really needs to heed it. It was given to Romney by George W. Bush’s Secretary of State concerning the Republican candidate’s team of foreign policy advisers that Powell figuratively had for breakfast on NBC’s “Morning Joe” broadcast.

“I don’t know who all of his advisers are, but I’ve seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought,” Powell commented.

Maybe even a third thought would be advisable since Romney recent declared Russia was America’s number one geopolitical enemy. That really missed the mark and Powell agrees it’s wrong: “Come on Mitt, think,” Powell said. “That isn’t the case.”

Romney really should stop and think because Powell knows whereof he speaks. It was he who gave Congress that load of nonsense about how dangerous Iraq was in early 2003. Powell learned from that episode. Romney apparently didn’t.

Some might say that the U.S. presidential election shouldn’t be decided by foreign policy. That’s correct, but it applies only to the United States itself. As Europeans, we would like to know how the man in the Oval Office will govern, and that includes what his view of the world looks like.