The Impact of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

December 14, 2010



From Jennifer Rubin's editorial in The Washington Post -- on the potential impact of incoming House Foreign Affairs Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen:

Of course, oversight hearings and budgetary control do not guarantee that the Obama administration will shift course on Russia, Cuba or any other country. But Ros-Lehtinen can, and I predict will, make a difference. Nations that have been neglected or undercut by this administration will have a chance to be heard. She, as well as the 2012 presidential candidates, can begin to lay out the case against Obama foreign policy and describe an alternative vision - robust on human rights, supportive of our allies, candid in the description of the war against Islamic jihadism and assertive in advancing U.S. interests rather than the nebulous goal of "engagement." That is no small thing.