Republican candidates mocked President Barack Obama during the Thursday night debate in Iowa over his handling of the downed U.S. drone in Iran.Read it all here."This is a president that the spy drone being brought down, he says pretty please? Foreign policy based on pretty please? You have to be kidding," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said. "This is a president who fundamentally believes that the next century is the post-American century. Perhaps it will be the Chinese century. He is wrong. It has to be the American century. America has to lead the free world."
On Monday President Obama acknowledged Iran had the drone in its possession. "We've asked for it back," he said. "We'll see how the Iranians respond."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry also chastised Obama, saying the U.S. should have either destroyed the craft or obtained it so that sensitive technology wouldn’t fall into Iranian hands. Perry called Obama’s reaction to the felled drone "the worst and the weakest."
The drone—a bat-winged RQ-170 Sentinel—was on a CIA mission when it went missing on Dec. 4, according to US officials. Meanwhile Iran has promised it would "reverse-engineer" the craft to exploit its technology.
Iran was the hot foreign policy issue during the Iowa debate Thursday. [...]
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