Politics
Obama to GOP: “War with Iran not a game”
U.S. President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File
At a news conference at the White House on Tuesday, President Obama lashed out at Mitt Romney and the other GOP presidential candidates for “the casualness with which some of these folks talk about war,” saying their rhetoric on Iran reflects the fact that they “don’t have a lot of responsibilities.”
“This is not a game,” he said. “And there’s nothing casual about it.”
In a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Tuesday, Romney attacked Mr. Obama’s approach to the Middle East, saying “hope is not a foreign policy.” In an op-ed Monday, Romney laid out how he would deal with Iran and criticized Mr. Obama’s policies and tone – despite the fact that his approach is essentially identical to that of the president.
That’s something Mr. Obama seized on during his news conference Tuesday.
“And, you know, when I see some of these folks who have a lot of bluster and a lot of big talk but when you actually ask them specifically what they would do, it turns out they repeat the things that we’ve been doing over the last three years, it indicates to me that that’s more about politics than actually trying to solve a difficult problem,” he said.
