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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 it's a complicated issue, but is there a way to describe our current foreign policy? >> it's a very complex situation because we have a number of foreign policy problems. iran, syria. evolution of the arab spring and we have number of fu...

From domestic. far weaker if we don't 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 washington's halls of power are filled with the greedy and hapless, but rather that few foreign policy problems can be solved. most can at best be managed and just getting by is ...

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 obama's afghanistan surge was a huge success, right? now that's probably for two reasons. a, you have a candidate saying the center piece was a huge success. b, it wasn't 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 weary. one thing i think is positive sounds weird to say but one thing i think is progress in a cert...

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, he's 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 i'm glad he said it's not clear that egypt is an ally. they are not acting like one, and i think that one is going to gain points w...

He says, now it's 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 president's order executive order from last friday. what more could you add about that. >> reporter: he claimed the president's decision to make this executive order on friday, the day after a fairly cooley received speech on the economy was pure politics in timing perhaps to over shad...