Dems Blast Romney's Foreign Policy Speech

Just hours after Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered the first major foreign policy speech of the 2012 election season, Democrats attempted to counter the former Massachusetts Governor’s attempt to paint the President as weak.

“He mentioned … that he wanted clarity and resolve on the part of American foreign policy, ” former DNC Chair and retired Army Colonel Don Fowler said during a DNC conference call with reporters. “I doubt that al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden question President Obama’s resolve.”

Former Congressman Robert Wexler, the President of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, also took issue with Romney for questioning Obama’s treatment of Israel, pointing to the President’s decision to fight Palestinian attempts to gain statehood at the UN.

“There was nothing ambivalent about President Obama when he stood up against the entire world at the United Nations,” Wexler said, adding that the President also agreed to send bunker-buster bombs to Israel and helped orchestrate a rescue effort at Israel’s embassy in Egypt when it was under siege from protesters.

Romney delivered his speech Friday at the Citadel, a military college in South Carolina. The Republican frontrunner called for increased military spending and aggressively maintaining military dominance.