State of the Union will Hit on Key Foreign Policy Points

President Obama's State of the Union address will focus on jobs and budget cutting, but he will also include foreign policy concerns.

His speech should include remarks on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the need to make the U.S. more competitive with the emerging economies of China and India. On foreign policy, the president is expected to also highlight his diplomatic success in arms control with Russia and alert the public to the diplomatic challenges in Iran and North Korea.

The president is expected point to the end-of-year deadline for the removal of U.S. troops from Iraq and restate his vow to begin drawing down troops in Afghanistan this summer, with a goal of ending the U.S. mission in 2014.

And, Mr. Obama will outline his view of American values, saying that the U.S. must step up to the plate and give U.S. workers a competitive advantage -- as China and India and Germany have done, building infrastructure and supporting education, making his point that trade and investment are the path to a stronger foreign policy and national security.

In the end, the State of the Union speech will try to rally Democrats and Republicans around his foreign policy effort to work with other major nations to impose sanctions on rogue regimes, knowing that he faces resistance on any additional spending, and that he faces a Congress, now with Republican leadership, which is proposing to cut U.N. funding.

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