Willard should retroactively cancel foreign excursion

How could a trip so tailor made for "a guy from Great Britain" who enjoys such a "special relationship" with his "Anglo-Saxon" forebears go so horribly wrong in one day? That answer might just stem from a condescension-laden, misinformed description of the host country on the first leg of his three-country tour that can be found in his fantasy novel, No Apology..

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.

Actually, the "island" is called Great Britain. It, in turn, contains the countries of England, Scotland to its north and Wales to the West. Despite dropping the ball at the start of the section, it's interesting to note that, unfortunately, in Romneyspeak it's roads and houses are not the right size, but, following a series of humiliating gaffes, the Romneybot discovered the country's weather was just "great."

To be fair, the above is but a tiny excerpt of a much larger "attempt to bolster a nonexistent national-security and foreign policy portfolio," according to one reviewer.

A Washington Independent review of Romney's book suggests that his foray into foreign relations is so flawed and full of "paranoid global fantasies" that he would be better off, as proven by recent interviews overseas, simply "saying nothing at all."

Romney has little choice but to caricature Obama. The president’s foreign-policy record so far is one of increased relations with Pakistan that have finally yielded Pakistani arrests of Afghan Taliban leaders; a commitment to resourcing and waging the Afghanistan war capably; the effective international isolation of Iran over its nuclear program (thanks in part to improved relations with Romney’s Chinese and Russian bogeymen); and a so-far cautious drawdown of military forces in Iraq. If Romney has a problem with any of this, he does not say — but because he cannot credibly gain purchase with a suspicious Republican Party that repudiated him in the 2008 primaries without bashing Obama, he must attack the version of Obama that exists in his mind.

For more on how Romney's absence of foreign policy experience, other than parroting the talking points of a few advisors, is negatively affecting US relations with its allies, please read this post.