On Foreign Entanglements, Matt and Jamie discuss the Foreign Policy Initiative’s new poll of US opinion on foreign policy. They debate whether isolationism is still an important strain in American politics. Why was the Obama administration so slow to acknowledge the Libyan consulate murders as a terrorist attack? Were the embassy demonstrations a sign of US weakness in the Middle East? Both Matt and Jamie think supporters of Bush’s “Freedom Agenda” should’ve been prepared for Morsi’s UN speech. Finally, Matt criticizes Netanyahu’s infamous bomb chart speech, while Jamie defends an aggressive stance against Iran.
Play entire videoFPI’s national survey on foreign policy
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey
Trailer for “Innocence of Muslims,” the film that has inflamed public opinion in the Middle East
Full video of Egyptian President Morsi’s UN speech
Full video of Bibi Netanyahu’s UN speech, featuring the famous bomb chart
Matt discusses Bibi’s bomb chart in The American Prospect
The Arms Control Association analysis of Bibi’s speech
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