Heather Hurlburt, The Guardian
Ryan's callow attempt to claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan reveals the Republican presidential team's foreign policy naivetyThis week, GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan topped off a critique of President Obama's response to violent demonstrations at American embassies across the Middle East by saying that because of the president's policies, the Middle East "looked like 1979 Tehran" "“ when demonstrations by Iranian student revolutionaries culminated in the invasion of the US embassy and the taking of 50 hostages in a stand-off that would...