ELECTION 2012 - Foreign Policy

"Assessing Differences Between Obama's, Romney's Foreign Policy Platforms" PBS Newshour 10/8/2012

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SUMMARY: President Obama and Mitt Romney have traded barbs on foreign policy while remaining vague about specific proposals. Judy Woodruff talks to former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and Duke University's Peter Feaver on how the United States should move forward on foreign policy priorities.

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): For more on all this for more on all of this and the differences between the presidential candidates when it comes to foreign policy, we get two views.

Michele Flournoy is the co-chair of the Obama campaign's National Security Advisory Committee. She also served as undersecretary of defense for policy in the Obama administration.

And Peter Feaver served on the National Security Council staff during the George W. Bush administration. He's now a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University.