By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wants the United States to get much tougher with Iran and end what a top adviser calls the "Mother, may I?" foreign policy of President Barack Obama.
Romney's foreign policy pronouncements and the team advising him indicate that Americans and the world might expect a Republican campaign that reprises the hawkish and often unilateral foreign policy prescriptions that guided Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
[Read: On Foreign Policy, Romney More Like Nixon than His Own Father.]
A top Romney foreign policy adviser, Richard Williamson, says the world is better off when the United States takes the lead.
The hot partisan fight over the economy has overshadowed Romney's grievances with the Obama foreign policy.
That may be good for Romney. A recent Washington Post-ABC News survey found that Americans trust Obama over Romney on international affairs.
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John of NY 8:19AM April 19, 2012