Your Say: Romney has what it takes on foreign policy?

Comment from Facebook:

Does Mitt Romney believe he's going to make it more attractive to "bring" manufacturing from China back to the U.S.? Is this his strategy to rejuvenate the country? For a guy who has been in business for 25 years, this is telling.

First, U.S. managers made a decision to send manufacturing to China, and this has been incredibly profitable for U.S. businesses. Second, even if China's currency rises 100%, this won't be enough to return jobs to the U.S.

But this is my point: Romney's a smart guy and knows this. Why would he talk up manufacturing and set false expectations that he's going to do something about this. Even if he could persuade companies to bring back jobs, they won't do it in the four years of his term. Labeling China a manipulator is the wrong action and wrong answer to how to create more jobs in the U.S.

George Carlisle

Letter to the editor:

I find it interesting to constantly hear from supposedly knowledgeable people about Mitt Romney's lack of experience in or knowledge of international and foreign policy issues. When you compare the experience Romney has through running the Olympics and his various international business dealings throughout his career with a true lack of international experience of a junior senator from Illinois four years ago, it is clear that Romney has more understanding of those issues than President Obama had when he assumed his current office almost four years ago.

Bert Williams; Milledgeville, Ga.

Comment from Facebook:

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, and the resulting retaliatory tariffs by U.S. trading partners, reduced American exports and imports. Tariffs can be economy killers. Read up on the economics of the Great Depression. Tariffs always have unintended consequences.

David A. Plathe