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Choice and conceived lack of trust in the way the syria situation played out, that did not look well for allies. i give kerry high marks on continuing a bush administration policy on iran to get them to the table whether or not a deal happens or a good thing we'll debate. if you asked me marks to give kerry on do israel a bunch when it won't happen and no one cares, i wouldn't give them high marks. >> we care. >> south korea and japan is something more. his asia focus isn't there and that's a serious problem given that's where americans need to be. >> what surprised you most this year economic...

We still haven't had that real acceleration that we want and in part because of the mess in washington again. it's been a recovery held back by stupid fiscal policy. we have discussed this before. cuts, sequestration, short-term fiscal tightening, 1.75% of gdp could drag a stronger economy down. it was a stupid thing to do. >> we have to wrap this up. we'll ask you winners or losers. i will point in one direction but you can take it where you want. putin, has he played a weak hand pretty well? his standing seems to have improved. snowden. syria. >> considering the difficulty russia is in on so...

>> anne marie, the obama administration would say we got a deal to get chemical weapons out of syria. we're trying to get a deal to get iran securely on a nonnuclear path. >> you just took my lines. those are hard accomplishments. i have been very critical of our syria policy and the optics of focusing more on chemical weapons than the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of deaths was bad but the fact remains that we are getting chemical weapons out of syria and the framework agreement with iran is more than anyone has been able to do for a decade. it bodes very well. the fact that it exi...

And certainly hurt american allies in different parts of the world. snowden issue had a major impact. impact of the government shutdown and obama not showing up at the summit hurt americans on the partnership and won't get done by the end of 2014 as the signal accomplishment that obama could have in foreign l policy. one thing we haven't said yet which is also important is the second term team. hillary clinton is not there anymore. geithner is not there anymore. gates isn't there anymore. dael is not there anymore. >> john kerry has had an impressive start in terms of the energy ambition. he s...

Ian bremmer looks at political risk around the world. how do you think president obama did for a completely fair and unbiassed assessment? >> about as well as president bush did at a similar time in his tenure, 2005, which is to say it has not been a good year for him domestically for all of the reasons that we know since the disastrous rollout of obama care which i think will be a rolling disaster. we haven't seen the end of it by any stretch. in foreign policy, this has been a year of american weakness. we saw it in gyrations about what to do with syria and the assad regime's use of chemical...