VMI Cadet. October 12, 2012

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Mitt Romney gives For-eign
Policy speech to
members of the VMI
Corps of Cadets.
Sports
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“Hope is not a
strategy.” Applicable to the
military and civilian world,
one of Romney’s memo-rable
phrases of his foreign
policy speech were uttered
at the Virginia Military In-stitute.
The VMI Corps of
Cadets received a rare op-portunity
when the Repub-lican
presidential candidate,
Mitt Romney visited post
this past Monday October
8, 2012. Romney deliv-ered
his much anticipated
foreign policy speech in
the Hall of Valor at VMI.
ROMNEY DELIVERS FOREIGN
Before Romney ad-dressed
the Corps, General
Peay ’62 gave the opening
remarks. General Peay felt
honored that Romney had
chosen VMI as the backdrop
for his speech and noted the
relevancy of Romney’s ad-dress
to VMI. General Peay
explained that many VMI
cadets either commission as
officers into the U.S. armed
forces or pursue careers in
the national security or busi-ness
fields, and still serve
their country in some capac-
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ity after graduation. Follow-ing
General Peay, Congress-man
Bob Goodlatte shared a
prayer for VMI cadets who
will join the military, cur-rent
VMI graduates serv-ing
abroad and all service-men
and women in harm’s
way. The current Governor
of Virginia, Bob McDonnell,
formally introduced Gover-nor
Romney. Governor Mc-
Donnell looked forward to
the new graduating class of
2013 and remarked on the
disposition of VMI cadets as
“incredibly dedicated to the
cause of honor and service.”
As Romney stepped
on took the stage he was
greeted by a warm stand-ing
ovation by the cadets.
The audience consisted of
First class cadets, and sec-ond
and third class cadets
that have earned academic
stars (received for earning
over a 3.5 GPA for two con-secutive
semesters) “The
only way human beings can
win a war is to prevent it.”
Mitt Romney quoted VMI’s
own George C. Marshall in
the opening of his address
to the Corps of Cadets.
Governor Romney
first discussed the terrorist
acts on September 11, 2012
in Libya as well as the “an-ti-
American riots in nearly
two dozen other countries,
mostly in the Middle East,
but also in Africa and Asia.”
Romney continued his dis-cussion
on our foreign policy
in the Middle East explain-ing
that our relationship
with our biggest ally in the
region, Israel, has “suffered
great strains”. The Gover-nor
said that he wants “no
daylight in between the U.S.
and Israel, he also wanted
to reverse the disintegrat-ing
relationship between
the United States and Isra-el.
Romney also wanted to
make it clear to the Iranian
government that their nu-clear
development program
would not be tolerated. Rom-ney
will try to enforce this
by “tighten[ing] the sanc-tions
we currently have”.
The United States
must intervene in Syria, al-lowing
them to defeat the
oppressive regime of Assad
and develop a positive influ-ence
with a nation that “sits
at the heart of the Middle
East”. The timeline in Rom-ney’s
withdrawal in Afghani-stan
is nearly the same as
President Obama’s and there
are very little mentioned
differences to their plans
other than rhetorical argu-ments.
Governor Romney
ended with the idea that it is
America’s duty to create an
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POLICY SPEECH AT VMI
"The 21st century began with
terror, war, and economic ca-lamity.
It is our duty to steer
it onto the path of freedom,
peace, and prosperity."
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Romney delivers foreign policy speech at The Virginia Military
Institute.
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Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney used VMI’s
Marshall Hall as the venue to present his views on foreign policy
Monday morning.
Photos Courtesy of Communication and Marketing