On Columbus Day, Mitt Romney went to the Virginia Military Institute to  outline a starkly different foreign policy vision from President Obama’s  approach of apologizing for America, ignoring Islamism, mistreating our allies  and embracing our enemies.

It came none too soon.  The Syrian war has spilled across the border of  a NATO ally and there are new indications the rebellion is drifting toward the  influence of radical jihadists.

In our own hemisphere, the anti-US strongman with whom Obama shared a brother  handshake in public, Hugo Chavez, just claimed a new mandate to advance his  anti-American cause.

The Iranian regime—the chief opponent of a modern, civilized order in the  Middle East — is lurching toward a nuclear weapons capability.

And then there is Libya, where a terrorist attack that killed US ambassador  Christopher Stevens and three other Americans has led not to reprisals and  serious action, but an administration lying to the American people about  national security to a degree not seen since the Vietnam era.

Mitt Romney laid out an alternative that would be stingy with lives of  American servicemen, but willing to use American statecraft and power when our  interests are clearly on the line.

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