The Hill News

It’s a scary world out there, if you read Mitt Romney’s white paper on national security. If he is elected, it’s going to get even scarier.

Romney as president would boost U.S. military spending and naval shipbuilding. He would dispatch aircraft carrier task forces to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf as a warning to Iran. He would expand the naval presence in the Western Pacific as a warning to China. The U.S. should be coordinating with Taiwan to determine its military needs and supplying them with adequate aircraft and other military platforms, he says.

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