The column about a theoretical Mitt Romney presidency by Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. contains two serious flaws ("What if? Life under President Romney," Jan. 27). First, Mr. Ehrlich writes "... there would be a fiscal plan to cut $4 trillion of federal spending over the next four years." In fact, not only did Mr. Romney never present any plan to help balance the budget, he proposed increasing the already bloated defense budget by $2 trillion over the next 10 years.
Second, Mr. Romney's foreign policy was a disaster waiting to happen. His neoconservative advisers were the same ones who helped manipulate an ill-informed President George W. Bush into invading Iraq and now were supporting war in Iran. Also, Mr. Romney's pro-Israel billionaire donor, Sheldon Adelson, opposed any Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement and supported a U.S. war in Iran.
