{"id":23034,"date":"2017-07-12T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23034"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:40:46","slug":"mitt-was-ahead-of-his-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23034","title":{"rendered":"Mitt was ahead of his time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s time for a serious mea culpa.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mitt Romney once declared during the 2012 presidential campaign that Russia presented the “greatest geopolitical threat” to the United States of America.<\/p>\n

I was one of millions of Americans who laughed at the Republican presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

Five years later, I regret laughing. I regret dismissing Mitt’s assessment. I regret writing some negative blog posts about what the nominee said.<\/p>\n

We are learning today — and in the course of the Donald J. Trump campaign and his presidential administration — that the previous GOP nominee was ahead of his time.<\/p>\n

It can be argued, I suppose, that international terrorists presented a greater geopolitical threat than Russia in 2012. Our special forces had just killed Osama bin Laden, but al-Qaeda was still going strong. The Islamic State had emerged as a monstrous threat as well.<\/p>\n

The Russians, to my mind, seemed at the time to have been relegated to a back bench.<\/p>\n

Silly me. Mitt Romney seems to have been spot on.<\/p>\n

The Russians are undermining NATO; they invaded Ukraine; they are propping up a murderous regime in Syria. They also sought to affect the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

The startling revelation today from Donald J. Trump Jr. that he accepted a meeting invitation anticipating dirt on Hillary Rodham Clinton from the Russian government<\/em> suggests an existential threat to this nation’s sovereignty.<\/p>\n

There’s still a lot of ground to cover before we determine any criminality on the part of the Trump presidential campaign. However, I do believe it is becoming quite clear that the Russians<\/em> remain a force with which we must reckon.<\/p>\n

Gov. Romney, I hereby apologize for doubting you.<\/p>\n\n

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