“I don’t know what it is,” said Senate Armed Services Committee member John Cornyn (R-TX) when asked to comment on Romney’s Syria policy. After The Cable explained it to him, Cornyn said he needed more time to study the issue. Other top senators were similarly befuddled.

On his campaign website, Romney criticizes Obama for reaching out to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the past but stops short of calling for any direct action to force Assad from power such as directly arming the opposition, as his surrogates like Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are demanding, or establishing “safe zones” for the Syrian opposition, as many of his campaign’s foreign policy advisors are calling for. …

“I don’t know what his position is and his positions change so frequently, it’s hard to keep track,” Levin said. “That doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have one, or that he doesn’t have two or three for that matter.”