discussion in his speech about either one of those two. a lot about comparing and contrasting with the previous administration. but i thought much of it may have been music to the ears of putin and xi jingping. you don t like to deploy our men and women willy-nilly without a lot of thought and strategy behind it. but in some cases it needs to be done. and we have veterans who deserve the very best. i thought thought it fell well short of what the american people and the world deserved to hear coming out of the united states at a crit in history. you just heard the governor talk about the president s speech close to the editorials written about the speech.
one conundrum that s been raised by a couple of people is why did he step on the afghanistan announcement the day prior to the speech by injecting afghanistan in the troop withdrawal in the timetable rather than insert it into the speech itself? i think the purpose of this speech was you have a very frustrated president who feels that people just don t get it. that he s a hard core realist and if you look at every issue you re talking about issue by issue, he would argue he has the sanest approach that has the highest degree of success. and in private and public and in that speech that is what he is telling everybody. he s meeting with columnists, reporters, giving speeches. he believes what he said several weeks ago about hitting singles, that being the route to success on foreign policy. he believes passionately in that. he s double downing on that concept. they wanted to use that speech to put that in perspective. you heard it from the governor, it s just not that inspiring.
since 1989. it s not clearly defined. it is a much more fractured world. six years in, president obama trying to define is a little disappointing. is barack obama s foreign policy? well, i think it s a lot of hedging right now. when a strategy ought to drive the discussion and policy. in much of kerry s speech which i thought was pretty defensive based on his record was all based on hedging. you engage in a hedging strategy when you have nothing else to do. where s the grand strategy behind the american role of the world? you say that we re ever-changing our place in the world. and that s true to some extent. but we also have to recognize that today s moment is not unlike 1815 after the treaty of paris or 1919 after the treaty