U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address at the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on May 28, 2014 in West Point, New York.

Is Obama's 'Might and Right' Foreign Policy a Change?

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 29, 2014

Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist, author of The Insurgents and the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses President Obama's foreign policy speech at West Point's commencement ceremony yesterday as well as his latest Slate column.

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