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Fields, china was forced to go to the international oil market to buy oil which then drove up the price of oil on the international market which then caused the price to group here in the united states and president emphasized this was during president obamas re-election campaign 2012. the president accused president obama of caring north about foreign policy problems but only about his own re-election. now, a word of caution. i dont have the obama administrations side of this conversation, but ...

There is a lot going on in the world right now. turkey is now swaying under straight days of increasingly massive protests against what previously seemed to be a stable government. mostly young people, but all kinds of people calling the government authoritarian and anti-democratic and taking to the streets in protest. the war in syria is the ongoing war in syria with complex dynamics in politics. and politics surrounding that conflict, encompassing russia, the eu, israel, lebanon, jordan, iraq,...

Previously seemed to be a stable government. mostly young people, but all kinds of people calling the government authoritarian and anti-democratic and taking to the streets in protest. the war in syria is the syria i on-going war in syria, with complex international dynamics and politics surrounding that conflict, encompassing russia, the eu, israel, lebanon, jordan, iraq, turkey as well. theres a war on in afghanistan with two u.s. soldiers, a policeman, nine kids killed in the eastern part of ...

Government. mostly young people, but all kinds of people calling the government authoritarian and anti-democratic and taking to the streets in protest. the war in syria is the ongoing war in syria with complex dynamics in politics. and politics surrounding that conflict, encompassing russia, the eu, israel, lebanon, jordan, iraq, turkey as well. theres a war on in afghanistan with two u.s. soldiers, a policeman, nine kids killed in the eastern part of the country today, and a suicide bomb attack...

A big challenge for the white house. one more thing on the presidents plate. in the middle of this domestic maelstrom. >> chris: foreign policy problems as well with syria. >> yeah. >> chris: busy plate. charles, your reaction? >> nothing will happen at the u.n. even if it were to happen at the u.n. it will have zero effect on the program that the north koreans are running. all of this talk, reflexive answer. every time it happens and utterly meaningless. its true. neither administration, nor th...

For weeks the administration claiming that the september 11th attacks were a response to a youtube video, same video that sparked violent protests around the world including outside the embassy in cairo. since the arab spring we have seen big changesn the volatile region. how will he handle foreign policy in the next four years? we asked our experts. >> i know its a complicated issue, but is there a way to describe our current foreign policy? >> its a very complex situation because we have a num...

From domestic. far weaker if we dont have the political and economic power to back them up. richard haass is the author of "foreign policy begins at home." richard, always good to see you. i love this lead from "the washington post" this morning, column on the foreign policy debate and the conundrum that this is an easy red versus blue. the problem is not the democrats are wimps or that republicans are war mongers or washingtons halls of power are filled with the greedy and hapless, but rather t...

As far as i can tell. when you bore down. you made a point about essentially paul ryan endorsing the afghanistan strategy. >> yes. paul ryan said that president obamas afghanistan surge was a huge success, right? now thats probably for two reasons. a, you have a candidate saying the center piece was a huge success. b, it wasnt a huge success. on both grounds he was off base. >> and this to me strikes at something very deep about the politics of foreign policy, which is that the nation is war wea...

Whether or not egypt is an ally, not sure about that at the moment. what does this say about the romney campaign in some ways if there is an argument to be made that foreign policy should not necessarily be a strong suit here for the president? >> look, hes up to being criticized for foreign policy problems. i think the relationship with israel has unfortunately suffered because of unnecessary slights to the prime minister, but on the other hand i think right now im glad he said its not clear th...

He says, now its our time, referring to republicans who have promised to bring fiscal discipline to the budget, curb the debt and straighten out foreign policy problems that they are blaming on president obama throughout the world. bill: he was doing cbs on sunday morning but he would not say he would undue the presidents order executive order from last friday. what more could you add about that. >> reporter: he claimed the presidents decision to make this executive order on friday, the day afte...