The last debate was definitely the least exciting of the debates. It seemed to be a big mash up of all the other debates wrapped up into one long repetitive “debate”. I say “debate” because after a while they just started agreeing and rarely straying off of the same pathway, talking about the military sometimes and then of course going on to talk about what they would do to help our country’s economy. This didn’t necessarily make for a bad debate because when it comes to the foreign policy questions they were given, there weren’t many options.

Now if you had missed the debate I can sum it all up. Both were/are not going to let Iran get nuclear weapons. They both want education to be a key part in building America back up. We should support the insurgents in Syria but we cannot allow ourselves to be dragged into another war, and that is just about it.

Now for the details. I thought it was very interesting how whenever Obama would go on the offensive, Romney would say something to the likes of, “Bashing me isn’t going to help our country.” Then of course when Romney would go on the offensive that was apparently ok. It is exactly these arbitrary, hypocritical moves that are carried out by each side that should not and cannot be tolerated. We have come to accept lying as a normal process in our elections and we don’t ever stop to think that just maybe a characteristic (lying) that we don’t like in anyone, shouldn’t be one of the main characteristics of our country’s leader.

Now back to the debate, they both agreed on what to do with Syria, which was to give the insurgents aid, and use this as a chance to improve our relations in the Middle East, but we must be careful that they will not turn on us the moment they overthrow their government. Of course since women’s rights are barely existent in most Middle Eastern countries both candidates took the liberty of saying as many pro women’s rights lines as humanly possible to the point where they were practically just saying HEY WOMEN OUT THERE, GIVE ME YOUR VOTE.

Now the one thing that they seemed to slightly differ on was how they were going to deal with military spending. Romney wants to give the military trillions of dollars that they were not asking for to further improve and build up our army. He also said that Obama was basically cutting military spending. Obama pointed out that our army is bigger than the next ten countries’ combined. He then replied to Romney by saying he was merely managing the military, he was not downsizing it. Romney then said that we have a very small Navy, which gave Obama the opportunity to make a small joke saying that of course our Navy is smaller than previous years because of our advances in technology thus there is less need for more ships, which is why we don’t have many horses or bayonets in the army.

I believe one very positive thing to come out of the debate was the talk about China. Now as you know China basically owns us because we are trillions in debt to them. Romney and Obama both want to make sure China plays by the same rules as everyone else when it comes to currencies and manufacturing. China is a currency manipulator which means that they lower the value of their own currency so it basically costs pennies to make something that would cost much more for us to make thus making it easier to mass produce and then sell them for very cheap which makes them the more favorable choice. Romney pointed out that they also steal intellectual property and counterfeit our products, which is another thing that is basically cheating in the global market. However I would like to point out that Romney was criticized for being connected to many companies that outsourced jobs to China which leads me to believe that he wouldn’t be the one to get very tough on China as President Obama had said in the earlier debate.

Finally Pakistan seemed to be a slightly differing topic as well. Mitt said that Pakistan is our “ally” and that if we leave Al Qaeda and other terrorist/extremist groups will just take over again. Obama on the other hand had said that Pakistan is very loosely an “ally” because if we had told them that we were going to kill Osama Bin Laden when we did, they would have gotten him out of there, secondly we had gone in there to destroy Al Qaeda and we have destroyed Al Qaeda’s core, and thus we should pull out our troops.

Neither side seemed to have a win in this debate because their stances on most topics were the same.