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Flournoy: Obama speech ‘very nuanced’

May 28th, 2014
03:12 PM ET

A speech Wednesday by U.S. President Barack Obama, billed as a major foreign policy address, was “a very nuanced message and it’s hard to communicate,” a former top U.S. Defense official told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

“Different people will hear it in different ways,” Michele Flournoy, who served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under President Obama, said.

Just 38% of American approve of President Obama’s foreign policy, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll.

Click above to watch Amanpour’s full interview with Flournoy, who was the highest-ranking woman in Pentagon history and is often cited as a possible future Defense Secretary.


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    Giving a speech on US Foreign Policy that is described by the Administration as “a very nuanced message and it’s hard to communicate,” and one that "different people will hear it in different ways" seems to be a very inept way to communicate international policy.

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