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The Monumental Fraud Speaks

He said that what “irritates many people in the world is the condescending, patronizing attitude of America, that we have all the answers and everyone should do what we want them to.” ~Contra Costa Times

Personally, I have no real problem with Romney’s quote, except that it is absolutely and completely antithetical to everything else he has ever said about foreign policy and foreign relations.  His numerous public statements on Iran have been filled with precisely this kind of presumption and the insistence that Iran do what we say.  One of the planks of his campaign is to jeer at and deride France.  Now he suddenly worries about Americans sounding patronising and condescending?  Does the man ever just tell the truth?  He should give it a try–he might find it liberating.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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