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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal Live on Jason Riley in joining me to discuss the events unfolding ... at the U S embassies and Egypt and Libya ... as Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan welcome packing ... I'm happy to be heretics so we I woke up to news today of ... bad news today from embassy bombings than of ... Egypt and Libya us and that's when three other diplomats ... were killed ... aam ... first your reaction to to to this event and then I wanna talk about how this might play ... in the presidential action ... one was horrifying eighties Brady ... it is ... a terrible tragedy that may turn it into any continuing crisis ... the shocking ... to think that ... that ... we don't crowns ... murdered the American ambassador ... to a country ... whose freedom we helped ... when not long ago ... um it's it's really quite something and I I think the NEA and people are still absorbing the information in trying to absorb ... the higher meaning and what it implies ... um it is a moment of history and in this well of course become part of the presidential campaign ... but no one should attempt to exploit it ... short again chair ... aam the present is getting pretty high marks these days on foreign policy ... in the polls aam ... and ... I'm wondering if that ... if Romney is sort of outside of his comfort zone when it comes to national security ... and foreign policy didn't stress that at the convention he's taken ... some criticism for that ... obviously from Democrats Walsall ... from a lot of Republicans aren't we think is going on there probably just ... have a laser focus on the economy and jobs uncanny get away with ... pushing up porn issues aside ... I think he's a person who knows a lot about economic issues and how to make money and how others can make money and how they set the conditions by which ... the flow of money can be ... given the swift and deep ... that haven't been so and I don't think he is the person ... who ... well he has not shown that he is a person ... over regional foreign policy thinking it doesn't seem to be honest might not have to tell you ... I don't think ... in a statement on what happened in Libya last night and in his remarks ... today ... I don't think he did himself any favors ... at the moment of crisis like this ... I think it's kind of a water's edge momentum and everybody should cool it absorbed think and then say only serious and meaningful things and never allow themselves ... to look like they are ... by using it as a and political opportunity ... mommy look weak today I feel ... I'm still kind of absorbing it myself but at one point he had a circus like grimace on his face when has taken a tough questions from reporters um I thought ... he looks like Richard Nixon ... while ... you know ... there was ... an interesting article in Politico ... recently and that suggested that the downplaying of foreign policy by the ran the Romney campaign ... is by design aam ... a Romney advisor ... defended the candidates handling of the issue ... and said ... this is an economy election and if he gets off on foreign policy ... or war policy he's playing on the president's term ... aam twenty make of that ... well it's idiotic ... it is for foolish beyond belief to think you can live in this war over the running for president of the United States ... not talk about foreign policy ... also ... what is being conceded in a statement ... assuming an ideal assume it is a subtle statement is interested in from an unnamed I think foreign policy advisor from that bombing or advisor for Mitt Romney ... it's the Republican party now comes seating ... foreign policy is an issue to the Democratic Party ... from the time I became a conservative long ago it was the Democratic party that simply conceded ... foreign policy to the Republicans they were more ... stable in their thinking they were more shoring their steps they had greater focus on higher sophistication ... and they warn being torn apart by part of their party you know going off on tangents ... the idea that ... that Mitt Romney's people think the Republican party now concedes foreign policy is an issue to the Democratic Party could simply stop ... Obama is out there saying ... we told them lot and ... we ended the war in Iraq were trying to honor troops in Afghanistan ... aam has not been another attack from al Qaeda ... this does Romney simply facing the reality that he doesn't have a lot of leverage ... on this issue on foreign policy and so is to focus on other things I think Romney's mistake so far ... of course is trying to focus on the economy it is the Greek immediate issue when all of our lives and foreign policy is always there ... I think one this mistake ... is that this is what there's an opening for in America's thinking about foreign policy now ... the statement of them holding high of a worry and strategy ... that says this is America's role in the world and this is what we intend to these are what our challenge is all ... this is what we mean to me and ... Tina I mean look the aid and honk on the connected State concerned about whatever foreign policy issue comes up ... what is your green strategy which means what is your thinking as you look of the world ... there is an opening for that it is astonishing to me that the ... Republican ... presidential candidate is not ... making a joke ...