Mitt Romney said that the risk of conflict in the Middle East has increased, not decreased, since President Obama took office, in his foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., Monday.
The president is fond of saying that “The tide of war is receding.” And I want to believe him as much as anyone. But when we look at the Middle East today—with Iran closer than ever to nuclear weapons capability, with the conflict in Syria threatening to destabilize the region, with violent extremists on the march, and with an American ambassador and three others dead likely at the hands of al Qaeda affiliates— it is clear that the risk of conflict in the region is higher now than when the president took office.
