Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says America’s national security priority should be preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and he was talking tough about this in his recent stop in Jerusalem.
“History teaches with force and clarity that when the world’s most despotic regimes secure the world’s most destructive weapons, peace often gives way to oppression, to violence, or to devastating war,” Romney said. “We must not delude ourselves into thinking that containment is an option.”
Romney’s language sounded a lot like President George W. Bush’s on the eve of the Iraq war, says Bruce Jentleson, an analyst with ties to President Obama.
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