• Mitt Romney agrees that the United States has positioned itself in war-torn Afghanistan to
"confront a common enemy that threatens the United States, our friends and allies"
 
• Though he is full of praise for President Obama's right decision to surge 30,000 troops
into Afghanistan, Romney does not approve of the latter's non-action oriented rhetoric strategies
sketched out for the country and simply dismisses it with a comment: "This is not the time for
Hamlet in the White House."
 
• Mitt Romney made an appearance on CBS' Early Show, where he openly criticized President
Obama's decision-making process on Afghanistan.
 
• He has clearly stated that nothing worthwhile is being done to stabilize the situation in
Afghanistan and protect the lives of US troops dying in uniform everyday. 
 
• Followed by his silent interlude, Romney has been quick to comment that President Obama has
got his calculations wrong in sending conflicting and equally misleading signals about a timetable
for withdrawing troops.
 
• Romney strongly opines, "You don't want in any way to have [Pakistan or Afghanistan]
thinking that somehow we are only in there for 18 months and then we're getting out no matter what.
That's not the message you want to have heard"
 
• Romney believes that, in the hands of Obama, the US has been molded to don the role of a
neutral arbiter between nations instead of a champion of freedom.
 
• He also sends across a warning signal that a pullback of forces would destabilize
Afghanistan.

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