When Mitt Romney used the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya to criticize President Obama for sympathizing with anti-American interests, his remarks confirmed for many observers not only the candidate’s tone-deafness, but his seeming rudderlessness when it comes to difficult foreign policy matters.
Where are his moral bearings? There was a time just last year when pundits who didn’t know very much about Mormonism worried out loud that the writings of Cleon Skousen or LDS teachings about sacred history of North America might impact Romney’s foreign policy in unpredictable and worrisome ways. But after Romney showed more interest in scoring political points than statesmanship last week, the question has morphed. What if it’s not that Romney is too Mormon, but that faith has played virtually no role in shaping his approach to foreign policy issues?
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