they specifically highlight condoleezza rice and stephen hadley, who were both national security advisers. they have no roles in the romney campaign, although the post then has to note, stephen hadley did endorse romney in april and condoleezza rice has been speaking at donor retreats. also, it should be noted that many political operatives are lower ranking policy officials from the george w. bush administration are deeply enmeshed in the romney campaign including the senior adviser, foreign adviser, economic policy adviser and the chief strategists 1 running the whole campaign. other than that, be assured that mitt romney is definitely his own man. he brings his own approach. there's no reezing to say dick and cheney when you talk about what romney is doing tomorrow in some old guy's house. isn't obamacare awful? the washington post helpfully closed out this objective piece of journalism by quoting a friend of milt romney's who said there's no reason to think that dick cheney and romney have any relationship, quote, except they're in the same party. well done, washington post. tomorrow,

difference, so i point out that bush's outgoing national security adviser and secretary of state stephen hadley and condoleezza rice and their successor james jones and hillary clinton that would be hard to say that there was a profound difference in the views of the world among them. hadley and clinton had known themselves for years and had gone to wall and so one. in short they appointed the assumption they carried with them into office were far less conducive to the far-reaching change than the rhetoric of the obama presidential campaign lead people to anticipate. nevertheless, on some issues, the multilateralism is a change since the bush years and we do find for example but one reason that the obama administration is able to get support for economic sanctions against iran now is that he has managed to restore relations with allies from where they were certainly in 2004 but also in 2008 so it's not to say that the obama administration is completely the same as the bush administration. i don't buy that at all. finally there's the question where is the swing of the pendulum? when at the end o

republican foreign policy heavyweights, people like robert bzdelik, paufl wolfowitz, richard armitage, stephen hadley. as a result, he has blustered. actually, it's a second-rate power. he seems willing to start a trade war with china. he's vague yet belligerent about syria and iran. he's gone back and forth on a timetable for withdrawal of afghanistan. romney faces a tough problem. president obama is the first democrat in nearly 50 years to enter in an election with a dramatic advantage in foreig policy. the last time was lyndon johnson versus barry goldwater in 1964. but unless romney can craft a smart strategic alternative, that gap will only get wider. for more on this, you can read my column in this week's "time" magazine and on time.com. let's get started. >>> foreign policy is the flavor of the week finally. so let's get to it. i have a great panel. paul wolfowitz is former deputy secretary of defense under george w. bush and then president of the world bank. two former state department policy planning directors, richard haass, now the president of the council on foreign relations, and ann mar