Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Michigan who ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, penned a scathing review of Barack Obama’s foreign policy approach, which he described as "timid." As part of his analysis, Romney hones in on the president’s appearance at the Summit of the Americas this weekend, where Mr. Obama apparently "acquiesced to a 50-minute attack on America as terroristic, expansionist, and interventionist from Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega." Romney also pointed out that the president offered his first post-inauguration interview to an Arabic television network and blasted him for not doing enough to deter North Korea, which last month launched a long-range missile. He does not point out, however, that the missile failed and crashed into the ocean.

Toward the end of his article, Romney uses Vice-President Joe Biden’s campaign rhetoric against the Commander-in-Chief. Via The National Review Online:

Vice President Biden was right that the new president would be tested early in his administration. What the world learned was not good news for freedom and democracy. The leader of the free world has been a timid advocate of freedom at best. And bold action to blunt the advances of tyrants has been wholly lacking. We are still very early in the Obama years — the president will have ample opportunity to defend America and freedom, and to deter nuclear brinkmanship. I am hoping for change.

What do you think, readers, should the president take a harsher stand on people who express anti-Americanism, or sit side-by-side with them and attempt a dialogue?