Rosa Brooks, a senior Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation and former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Special Coordinator for Rule of Law and Humanitarian Policy in the Pentagon, discusses President Obama's 2012 State of the Union address, and what his emphasis on a "blueprint" for domestic policy says about his overall vision for grand strategy on foreign policy.
The SOTU address is aimed at getting Obama re-elected. I think it unproductive to expect Obama to talk about things that are not immediately on the voter's mind.
At the moment jobs and the economy is it, foreign policy is not.
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