Obama's Globe: A Must Read on Foreign Policy Before the Election
23 August 2012
Bruce Herschensohn, Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and CFIF Board Member, discusses why foreign policy must be a larger topic in the upcoming election, President Obama's foreign policy failures, and his latest book, "Obama's Globe: A President's Abandonment of U.S. Allies Around the World."
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