What is Romney's foreign policy?

The fuzziness of Romney foreign policy was painfully evident in the fracas following the announcement that uber-realist Zoellick would head his foreign-policy transition team. That produced a “firestorm” of protest from conservatives, according to Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, who described Zoellick as “anathema” to hawks. The Romney campaign promptly seemed to retreat, with sources insisting that Zoellick wouldn’t play any prominent role in a Romney administration…

A contrary view comes from one prominent neocon who is sympathetic to Romney but thinks that his foreign policy has been little more than “opposition research,” so far. “Romney has done nothing to present a coherent foreign policy,” this supporter told me, with the campaign preferring a “drive-by shooting of Obama,” based on a caricatured image of the president as a left-wing, antiwar liberal that hasn’t been accurate since 2008. Other than support for Israel, Romney’s GOP is “increasingly insular and nationalistic,” he worries…

One prominent Republican argues that whatever defects Romney may have as a foreign-policy candidate, he would behave differently as president. “Bush changed, Obama changed, Romney will change,” he says. That’s the essence of foreign-policy realism, this belief that the parameters that shape strategy — the set of allies, enemies, problems and tools — don’t vary much from administration to administration. And neither does policy.