An Interesting Moment From Last Night's Debate

Look, I understand that Romney and Ryan don't have a lot of experience in foreign policy. With regard to Romney, his catastrophic oversees trip in July demonstrated that. But at least -- at this late stage in the campaign -- these guys should be able to competently talk about foreign policy.

Paul Ryan said this about Afghanistan 56 minutes into last night's debate (h/t Steve Benen):

"We agree with the Administration on their 2014 transition."

Moments later, Ryan had this to say about Afghanistan:

"[W]e don't want to broadcast to our enemies, put a date on your calendar, wait us out, and then come back.' ... What we don't want to do is give our allies reason to trust us less and our enemies more -- we don't want to embolden our enemies."

Wait, what? Romney must be giving Ryan lessons on flip-floppery because that might have been the fastest change-of-position in American politcal history. To paraphrase Bill Maher, even Romney's Etch-A-Sketch did a double-take on that one. 

Charles Pierce said it best about Ryan's performance last night: "He was more lost in Afghanistan than the Russian army ever was."