President Obama's Rudderless Foreign Policy

We saw the interview that President Obama conducted with 60 Minutes the other night. And in the interview and I mean it was very clear that the President feels we’ve made a lot of progress in the Middle East and that perhaps we’ve experienced a few ‘bumps in the road’ was his terminology.

Well, the problem with that assessment is I think it misses the point on the ground in the Middle East. It misses the growing threat that our ally Israel faces in the region as well as our other allies in the Gulf by growing bravado in Tehran. And, you know, I think that again, the President has demonstrated that there really isn’t a central rudder, if you will, to our foreign policy coming out of the White House.
And I think most Americans are looking at it wanting to see more leadership, wanting to see America lead again.
We just heard Mitt Romney at the Clinton Global Initiative, and I think that Gov. Romney’s statement there indicates that he is going to be very focused on America’s role as a leader globally and that we have an obligation as the most prosperous, most free country on Earth to be there for other freedom-loving people as they continue their struggle to gain the same kind of rights that we enjoy here at home.

-Eric Cantor U.S. Congressman from Virginia.