Good essay on Obama and the military - important points made - Romney/Ryan should be attacking here or at least inferring, intimating, pointing out to people that they need to take a deeper look at this stuff - Libya has opened up Obama's vulnerability on foreign policy issues and military matters in general, a vulnerability that was always there but hard to get at because of Osama demagoguery, and Romney should be pressing the matter. Foreign policy debate is coming up - Romney makes the case that is there to be made and consequently exposes Obama as the fraud/liar he is, could end this thing there and then.
The key is, even though the public may not be interested in foreign policy and military affairs per se and is probably disengaged and weary of war, if Romney is clever he can use these issues as a fulcrum to lift into view some Obama traits that the electorate will find interesting: namely, from my vantage point, that he does not promote or possibly even believe in notions of American strength and power that are default positions for most Americans - and he gets away with this because he's a damn good [or at least brazen] liar being enabled by a corrupted press that apparently shares his views. Now, you just can't come out and call the man a dissembling fraud who, for example, used a phoney surge in Afghanistan as a prop in a calculation whose only point was to serve his political interests - but, if you're clever, you can play on the facts and leave people with that impression. And then you tie it into Libya - there is a rather disquieting pattern here that, assuming the moderator doesn't jump in the way, can be made apparent with a few apt brush strokes from Romney.
