in iraq, we sort of have reached peak stupidity on foreign policy. we have reached a space where every foreign policy question has to be relentlessly politicized, has to be ground down into nothing. there s a lot of criticism of president obama, understandably so, but are journalists pressing the republicans on what they would do instead? certainly it s appropriate they should, and certainly been a problem for trump, certainly been a problem for jeb bush. it s been to the advantage of others. what i m saying is when you talk about that kind of horse hockey, or you have the chief spokesman for the white house defending themselves on the ground of bush lost a war, or we lost a war or whatever, we re in a real garbage space. journalists tend to have short memories. i don t see a lot of reporters pointing out that just a couple years ago that obama was moving towards air strikes in syria after the syrian regime used
stupidity on foreign policy and we have now reached a space where every foreign policy question has to be relentlessly political sized, has to be ground down into nothing. there is a lot of criticism of rebound but are journalists pressing the republicans on what they would do now instead? certainly it is appropriate. that has been a problem for trump. it has been a problem for jeb bush and it has been a problem for some. it is to the advantage of others. i am saying when you talk about that kind of language, that bush lost a war or we lost a war, whatever, we are in garbage space. a journalists have short memories and i do not see a lot of reporters saying a couple of years ago obama was moving to airstrikes in syria after they used chemical weapons and there was very little support in
in iraq, we sort of have reached peak stupidity on foreign policy. we have reached a space where every foreign policy question has to be relentlessly politicized, has to be ground down into nothing. there s a lot of criticism of president obama, understandably so, but are journalists pressing the republicans on what they would do instead? certainly it s appropriate they should, and certainly been a problem for trump, certainly been a problem for jeb bush. it s been to the advantage of others. what i m saying is when you talk about that kind of horse hockey, or you have the chief spokesman for the white house defending themselves on the ground of bush lost a war, or we lost a war or whatever, we re in a real garbage space. journalists tend to have short memories. i don t see a lot of reporters pointing out that just a couple years ago that obama was moving towards air strikes in syria after the syrian regime used
between the bishops and obama administration imposed as part of health care reform. it s a domestic point. when the president talked about religious freedom, he talked about persecuted christians abroad and how awful that is and how we need to do whatever we can to come to their aid. he was talking as a foreign policy question. while they could agree on the value, the application of it in those two situations was different. the pope was basically saying as a government try to build a better society, you still need to respect the religious freedom of americans and of catholics certainly and of christians who are opposed to this contraception mandate. the pope was trying to make the message to the obama administration and public officials about protecting religious freedom. there is a catholic point and since his election there is an attempt sometimes in some american media outlets to pit
let them be. faith in hugh hewitt making sure that national security stays at the front in his question. let s not forget going back to the 2012 debates where cnn, not to pick on them particularly, but they were, i think, 90 minutes into a two hour debate before they asked the first foreign policy question. you just had herman cain on. he i remember they asked herman cain what his favorite kind of pizza was before they got to the first foreign policy question. that is going to be a test of the debate tonight. the first job of the president, the first job is protecting the country and to me everything else is secondary. well, we will certainly be watching. what do you think, a fair question on what s going on in hungary and how to resolve that problem? well, i think that would be a fair question. i think that test the candidates understanding not just of the refugee problem in europe but the failure of obama s policy in the middle east. there are a huge range of questions to be as