Somebody please let Romney know that there currently is no country named Czechoslovakia and has not been since Jan. 1, 1993.  In its place we have two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Honestly, I find it unnerving when I know more about geo-politics than the people advising the person who could be president in January.

McCain keeps talking about Obama's abandonment of Czechoslovakia, too. He has been yammering o about this non-existent nation for years. Why is it that no one in the press ever calls him on this?

Des Moines Register | September 13, 2012
Another View: He blunders again with foreign policy - "Mitt Romney should be ashamed. The way he behaved on Tuesday night and Wednesday after the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the killing of J. Christopher Stevens, the American ambassador to Libya, is not befitting a candidate for president of the United States."

Concord Monitor | September 14, 2012
Romney's amateur comments on Libya - "The demented attacks on America's embassy in Egypt and consulate in Libya, and Mitt Romney's hasty and hyperbolic response to them, raises similar questions about the Republican presidential candidate's fitness to govern. Romney's condemnation of the Obama administration, at a time when American lives had been lost and its embassies were under siege, calls his judgment and ability to guide foreign policy into question."

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | September 14, 2012
Romney's gamble: He uses a day of American loss for political points - "Mitt Romney's mishandled response to the killings Tuesday in Libya of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans calls into question his ability and that of his team to perform their foreign policy responsibilities if he were to reach the White House. The Republican nominee already fumbled the ball during his July visit to the United Kingdom, Israel and Poland when he managed to insult the British, America's faithful friend in war and peace, by questioning their ability to carry out the Olympic Games successfully. His handling of the Benghazi tragedy was shockingly inept."

Palm Beach Post | September 14, 2012
Editorial: Foreign policy no longer a debate afterthought - "This week's events in Egypt, Libya and Yemen remind us that foreign policy crises can whirl up like fast-developing tornadoes, skittering across even carefully planned policies. They also reveal how people who seek high office react during a crisis. For the moment, commentary has focused on Mitt Romney's premature, inaccurate blast at the Obama administration for 'sympathizing' with those who carried out the violence that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. In fact, the comments were from one Cairo embassy staffer, came before news of the murders in Benghazi, Libya, were aimed at heading off protests over an anti-Muslim video and were ordered removed by the White House. Mr. Romney does himself no favors by doubling down on a very unpresidential response."

The mainstream media attitude toward the neocons reminds me of that character in William Shatner's song That's Me Trying:

So let's just pretend that
the past didn't happen . . .
no need to tell me where I went wrong . . .
See, if we never had a problem
Then that's what life would be like