Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies

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🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Barack Obama’s foreign policy came under expert scrutiny in this Intelligence Squared debate from 2010, as influential hawks and doves debated whether the president’s policies have left America looking feeble on the world stage. Historian and academic Simon Schama clashed with General Jack Keane, former vice chief of staff of the US Army, on the motion “Obama’s foreign policy is a gift to America's enemies.” Speaking in favour of the motion alongside General Keane were conservative commentator and editor of the Weekly Standard Bill Kristol and Executive foreign editor of the Telegraph Con Coughlin. Joining Simon Schama in arguing against the motion were France's leading philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy and Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School Philip Bobbitt. The debate was chaired by BBC World News presenter Zeinab Badawi. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.0	Hello, welcome to Central Hall Westminster here in London, where an audience of several
0:55.8	hundred have gathered to debate tonight's motion.
0:59.4	We have six speakers from Europe and America who are going to try to persuade the audience here and
1:04.4	you at home to either support or oppose the motion, Obama's foreign policy is a gift to America's
1:10.7	enemies.
1:11.7	Arguing for the motion motion Bill Crystal, Conservative commentator and
1:15.5	editor of the Weekly Standard, Jack Keene, retired four-star general and a key
1:20.0	architect of President Bush's military surge in Iraq and Conkoflin, executive foreign
1:25.5	editor of Britain's daily telegraph newspaper and an expert on terrorism and
1:29.8	against the motion Simon Sharma, eminent historian, author and authority on American foreign policy.
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