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He said his team is working all day long, 24 hours a day studying. its not time for studying. its time for drastic action. and its too late even for that, then i think we have to think to ourselves, is it going to be fortress america and isolationism again. >> if only it were that easy. we took drastic action in the bush administration. it didnt work out the way anybody wanted it to. it just isnt easy. i want to say, neil, i think youre right about syria. the president deserves a black eye for h...

Graduation speech at west point, where he was trying to articulate a new middle ground for american leadership and foreign policy, somewhere in between isolationism and interventionism, some gray area, in which he envisions the use of unit he lateral military action is pretty much off the table and there are vets like senator bob dole, world war ii vets who watched the commemoration today who worried that we are still complacent and thats dangerous. >> one of most important things we can do toda...

Keep tweeting and posting using #. this is important. use this #marine held in mexico. keep up the pressure. now to former u.n. ambassador john bolton is slamming president obama about his speech today to west point graduates in op ed scheduled for tomorrows "wall street journal." ambassador bolton not mentioning seeking victory in the war against terrorism. ambassador john bolton joins us. >> good evening, thank you. >> i have a different thought on what commencement speech is door to the futur...

And support american strong leadership in the world? >> the president had a major challenge in this speech, jenna. he had to over come the growing perception internationally that the united states has pulled back too much on the throttle of leadership. we are not energetic and clear as were number one power in the world. i thought it was an effective speech. he answered that question. he said were both indispensable and exceptional. very clearly argued against isolationism. he was right to point...

Afghan decision would be understandable had mr. obamas previous choices proved out, but whats remarkable is that the results also have been consistent, consistently bad. why not examine conditions then and make a decision based on facts? instead, an administration that faulted its predecessor for being ideological seems to have substituted ideology for reality-based foreign policy. lets bring in our panel, steve haze hayes, mara lie ason and charles krauthammer. >> what jumped out at me was how ...

Party. from the isolationism of rand paul to the saber rattling of among others marco rubio. what people need to ask these would-be commanders in chief is what happens when a candidates politics are confronted by real life or death situations? are we really going to refeet fr retreat from the world? no. can we use the military to solve every situation? of course not. these are unrealistic and irresponsible extremes that are the normal of presidential politics. in the "crossfire "" tonight, t str...

Lets talk about the presidents speech withdrawing, the deadline -- >> right. >> -- and for more covert training in syria. were beginning to get more involved in one war, the civil war in syria, and pulling out of afghanistan. >> and pulling out of afghanistan. and, you know, the speech was billed as essentially the obama doctrine, laying out his foreign policy vision. the thesis of the speech was, there are a lot of different -- very diverse kinds of problems that face us. its diffuse. not like ...

Chorus of criticism its been a week, rudder license foreign policy which it has been. i spoke to a member of the congress who was in the armed forces and he says there was a real pettiness and a personalization of this. this was a graduation ceremony of west point. it isnt a place to answer your critics or go point by point against all the attacks on him. he set out as you said this ridiculous contrast between extreme isolationism on the one hand and extreme, almost intervention on the other han...

In uniform and may god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] >> you see cadets applauding the cha commander in chief. a middle ground between direct intervention on the one hand and isolationism on the other. president outlining those areas where the u.s. must intervene and directly saying multilateral efforts are under way to avoid direct military action. lets watch the president receive this award. this medallion. >> we hope this ring serves as reminder of our class commitment to ou...

>> i think theres going to be a robust debate. and i think its really important that youre pointing out this distinction and divide in the republican party because it is real and i think it is more divisive than the issues a lot of other people focus on. there is a base of the republican party who really sees a strong america, who believes we have -- who almost has this view of american interventionalism that we have a moral purpose. and thats not a right-left divide. it really is a philosophica...