India nowhere in Romney plan

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday unveiled a foreign policy vision deepening US engagement in West Asia, and getting tougher with Iran and Syria.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday unveiled a foreign policy vision deepening US engagement in West Asia, and getting tougher with Iran and Syria.

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The candidate’s basic argument was that the US’s leadership of the world had slipped on President Barack Obama’s watch — a typically Republican position — and he would restore it.

"It is time to change course in the Middle East (West Asia for India),” Romney said in a speech from a military academy in the US state of Virginia.

But it was a vision heavily skewed towards West Asia. With the exception of Afghanistan, the rest of the world barely got a mention: Europe thrice, China once and India none at all.