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Foreign policy in Obama's SOTU

January 27, 2012 4:09 PM

CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate breaks down the most significant points on foreign policy made by President Obama in his State of the Union address.

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by joesapper January 29, 2012 5:59 PM EST
well folks foreign policy is an action or inaction to events and situations outside the boarders a country , the results of foreign policies play out before us. i am not a rep or a dem but rather am one who votes what i think would be best. in the reagan and senior bush era world stability was astablished through many asset resources including negotiations and military interventions which were both conducted wisely, the results speak as a witness to these facts. the wall fell , the soviet union became a russian democracy of which gorbi played a huge part, an the czek people also were freed , and kuwait was delivered from saddam insane.
these wise actions of foreign policy has escaped us and we have endured tragic attempts at foreign policy that have been based on lies since those times. iran is a real threat that will only grow devastating worse if the nuke sites are not destroyed. yes the west along with many other countries are war weary, but we must be brave and face the facts. i think if anyone that is running for the white house will have a hard sell to the american people about entering into war with iran , but the consequence of saying no will be more devastating than the last ten years of the iraq lie. the american people need a wise president that has the backbone to face off with a iranian military and not a small pocket of a few thugs. God bless the voter with wisdom.
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by RobAla January 28, 2012 5:56 PM EST
This speech didn't even address the REAL issues regarding domestic policy. The most striking absence in this speech was any mention of our massive out of control federal debt. President Obama talked about reducing spending on defense, but did he plan to use those savings to address the horrible deficit spending? NO! He talked about using that money to increase domestic spending on other federal programs. He has ZERO plans to address the most serious threat to our national security - our practice of accelerating our march to national bankruptcy through huge deficit spending and NO national budgets.

I listened to the President Obama's third State of the Union Address, and I have come to the conclusion that he is a schizophrenic. He talked about everyone playing by the same rules, after giving out $100s of billions of taxpayer dollars to corporations of his choice while allowing other businesses to fend for themselves. He talked about reducing federal regulations on business, after burying American businesses under increased regulations contained in his disastrous health care law, He talked about national unity, after he has divided Americans and pitted one group of Americans against another for three years. He announced that "America is back", after burying the nation under deficit spending like no other President in American history. He announced "no more bailouts", after being the king of bailouts. He talked about energy independence, after stopping a oil pipeline that would have made American less dependent on middle-eastern oil and would have created more than 20,000 jobs. I have never heard a more twisted, muddled, and conflicted speech in all my life.
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