What is your opinion of the new Repub candidate? What about Pawlenty?

[muman613]

He has been in the news a lot recently but we have not discussed his candidacy here...

What is your opinion on this rebublican candidate?


http://www.hindustantimes.com/Republican-Pawlenty-lays-out-tough-foreign-policy/Article1-715451.aspx

Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty attempted to separate himself from his fellow Republican presidential hopefuls on Tuesday in a speech that laid out an active and aggressive foreign policy vision. Pawlenty, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, criticised some in his party who have tended toward a more isolationist stance, particularly when it comes to the war in Afghanistan.

"America already has one political party devoted to decline, retrenchment and withdrawal," Pawlenty said. "It does not need a second one."

While Pawlenty named no names, the targets of his comments were clear: former governors Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Jon Huntsman of Utah. Huntsman, in particular, has come out in favour of a more rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan than the one that President Barack Obama laid out last week.

Romney caused some to wonder whether he was advocating a more isolationist stance two weeks ago when he said in a presidential debate that the Afghan war shows that the U.S. "cannot fight another nation's war of independence." His campaign has since rejected the idea that he has moved toward isolationism.

Pawlenty is wasting no time, however, in trying to cast himself as the leading foreign policy hawk among the top-tier presidential candidates. Even putting aside his stance on Afghanistan, he is going further than many of his Republican rivals have been prepared to go.

In his speech, Pawlenty struck an aggressive tone about the U.S. role in the international community.

He suggested that the United States should push for regime change in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa, including Libya and Syria, and that it should urge allies such as Saudi Arabia to improve their treatment of religious minorities and women.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/06/29/3088351/pawlenty-israeli-and-palestinian-peace-further-away-since-obama-took-office

Pawlenty: Israeli and Palestinian peace ‘further away’ since Obama

June 29, 2011
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty charged that peace between Israel and the Palestinians is "further away now" than it was the day President Obama took office.
 
Speaking Tuesday before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, criticized Obama's handling of the Middle East conflict, calling his lack of judgment on dealing with Israel "stunning."
 
“It breaks my heart that President Obama treats Israel, our great friend, as a problem, rather than as an ally,” Pawlenty said. “Today the president doesn’t really have a policy toward the peace process. He has an attitude. And let’s be frank about what that attitude is. He thinks Israel is the problem. And he thinks the answer is always more pressure on Israel.”
 
Pawlenty said Obama seems to "genuinely believe the Palestinian and Israeli conflict lies at the heart of every problem in the Middle East."
 
"The uprisings in Tunisia, Cairo, Tripoli and elsewhere are not about Israelis and Palestinians. They're about oppressed people yearning for freedom and prosperity," Pawlenty said. "Whether those countries become prosperous and free is not about how many apartments Israel builds in Jerusalem."
 
If elected, Pawlenty said he would never undermine Israel's negotiating position or pressure it to negotiate with Hamas. He said he would ensure financial assistance to the Palestinians ends immediately if the teaching of hatred in classrooms and on public airwaves continues.
 
"We must recognize that peace will only come if everyone in the region perceives clearly that America stands strongly with Israel," Pawlenty said.

[muman613]

I guess he too buys the 'palestinian myth' and probrobly supports the suicidal two-state final solution...

[Rubystars]

We should withdraw from Afghanistan because it's impossible for any Muslim country to be a 'democracy'.

[Dr. Dan]

Fact: there will never be peace with Israel.  Maybe some quiet during certain periods of time, but not peace.

Gd has intended in the Jewish people to be surrounded by jealous enemies who wish to destroy them.  He does this to us so we stay on our toes, to be more faithful, and to stick together. He hopes in a time of quiet throughout the generations that follow that we use free will to remain like this. Otherwise we won't deserve this everlasting reward.

Either our enemies will hurt us or we would just be doing it to oyeselves.