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Made our policy far more chaotic than it need have been. >> you write that the president's principle aim was to ma not to make strategic strate decisions. did politics rule at the state department? >> i think there was a perception first that we needed to put a lot of troops into afghanistan because of the domestic perception of the military position. the outcome of the iraq war. and in the administration decided to end this campaign precipitously with an eye to domestic politics. and politics dominated whether the administration would take risks, in terms of foreign policy making, would initi...

Pes peace in the world. he used that phrase talked about peace. he's not going to start another war. he's not george bush. we're not going to go into the middle east. very much aimed at women, dissociating himself from the failed republican foreign policy misadventures prior to president obama's tenure. look, at the end of the day, be you get the question that the moderator wants to ask and then you get to answer it however you want. >> aim to it not being scary. remember he comes out of this republican primary process in which a lot of voters in the middle, a lot of moderate swing voters were...

Whitewashes, how somehow sequestration is a problem for the white house and hammered him on the fact he wants to cut government spending on defense spending. it's okay to cut spending across the board for the poor and working class but nor to the defense sector. >> don't you think the president was very effective when he said that the ten biggest spenders in the world don't spend more than we do on defense. i think the american people have to hear the truth on that. >> yeah. >> sorry, alex. >> these are two guys who managed to turn a question about gun control into a discussion about the impor...