By Barry Rubin
This speech will no doubt consolidate his supporters. Yet without challenging President Barack Obama's policy in more detail or confronting the revolutionary Islamist threat more directly, can Romney persuade people that his strategy would be much better than that of the man under whose presidency Usama bin Ladin was killed (but al-Qaida and the Taliban weren't defeated) even though Egypt was lost as a U.S. ally? Presumably that will come in the foreign policy presidential debate.
The best parts were on Israel, Syria, how Obama empowered America's enemies, and the importance for American leadership. Romney also makes it clear that America is not the villain of the world, a point often obscured--to say the least--by the current president.