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Steven R. Hurst

Romney's foreign policy may mean hardball is back

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 5:13pm

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney wants the United States to get much tougher with Iran and to end what a top adviser calls President Barack Obama's "Mother, may I?" consensus-seeking foreign policy.

With the presidential nomination all but locked up, an examination of Romney's foreign policy pronouncements and the team advising him on those issues indicates Americans and the world might expect a Republican campaign that reprises the hawkish and often unilateral foreign policy prescriptions that guided Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

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Is Romney at war with the world?

Steven R. Hurst The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 11:57am

WASHINGTON -- The world according to Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney: Europeans are socialists. The Chinese are currency manipulators. Russia can't be trusted to abide by nuclear agreements. The Palestinians are out to destroy Israel. And the U.S. is too generous with humanitarian aid.

It often appears that Romney is targeting the rest of the world as fiercely as he does his rivals for the party nomination and President Barack Obama. It's not just expected foils like Iran that are in his line of attack. He takes aim at European allies, who are seen as slipping the capitalist leash.

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(ANDREW BURTON/The Associated Press) French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Millennium Hotel on 44th Street during the 66th session of the General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011.

French want Palestinians to drop UN membership bid

Mohammed Daraghmeh, Steven R. Hurst The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 7:21am

UNITED NATIONS — The French and U.S. presidents planned to heap pressure on their Palestinian counterpart Wednesday in a concerted push to persuade Mahmoud Abbas to end his bid for full U.N. membership and to instead seek upgraded status in the world body.

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(The Associated Press) President Barack Obama is seen during his meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, in advance of the Nuclear Security Summit, at Blair House in Washington, Sunday.

Obama takes non-nuclear pledge to world leaders

Anne Gearan, Steven R. Hurst The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 7:14pm

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's pledge to one day rid the world of nuclear weapons runs up against global realities this week when representatives from 47 countries try to craft an agreement on keeping nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands.

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