President Barack Obama returns to the Oval Office after giving interviews in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 6, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Obama To Lay Out Foreign Policy Approach In Speech At West Point -- CNN
Washington (CNN) - Eager to respond to criticism of his foreign policy approach to recent crises, from Syria to Ukraine, President Barack Obama will lay out his vision on Wednesday at the commencement at West Point for how the United States should apply force around the world.
"You will hear the President discuss how the United States will use all the tools in our arsenal without over-reaching," a White House official said.
"There’s a lot at stake and now is the right time for this speech," the official added, noting a long period of war in both in Iraq and Afghanistan is now coming to an end.
Top administration officials have begun preparing members of Congress for the President's remarks.
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My Comment: He is in the 6th year of his term .... and he is now laying out and articulating his vision to the U.S. public?!?!?! I do not know if this is a new approach, an emphasis on an old policy, or just staying the course .... but I do know one thing ..... after his speech I will probably be underwhelmed. But the line in this CNN report that caught my attention was this sentence after US Senators were invited to see a preview of the speech ....
.... Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, later described the meeting as "bizarre."
I have heard of opponents calling policies from the other party as dangerous/out of touch/disconnected/etc. .... but bizarre is a new one.
To rework that old chestnut "Obama might not have been interested in Foreign policy, but Foreign policy is interested in him"!
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