Watch President Obama Obliterate Sniveling Fox News Weasel Ed Henry on Foreign Policy

At a joint press conference with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III today, Fox News reporter Ed Henry took the opportunity to jab at President Obama, calling on him to defend five years of foreign policy, which he labeled as weak.

“I don’t think I have to remind you there have been a lot of unflattering portraits of your foreign policy right now,” Henry said. “And rather than get into all the details or red lines, et cetera, I’d like to give you a chance to lay out what your vision is more than five years into office, what you think the Obama doctrine is in terms of what your guiding principle is on all of these crises and how you answer those critics who say they think the doctrine is weakness.”

The President at first responded that there wasn’t time to lay out his entire foreign policy doctrine, but did address several criticisms point by point, joking at the end of his rebuttal that the question had got him “all worked up.”

Typically, criticism of our foreign policy has been directed at the failure to use military force. And the question I think I would have is, why is it that everybody is so eager to use military force after we’ve just gone through a decade of war at enormous costs to our troops and to our budget? And what is it exactly that these critics think would have been accomplished?

My job as Commander-in-Chief is to deploy military force as a last resort, and to deploy it wisely. And, frankly, most of the foreign policy commentators that have questioned our policies would go headlong into a bunch of military adventures that the American people had no interest in participating in and would not advance our core security interests.[...]

I would note that those who criticize our foreign policy with respect to Syria, they themselves say, no, no, no, we don’t mean sending in troops. Well, what do you mean? Well, you should be assisting the opposition — well, we’re assisting the opposition. What else do you mean? Well, perhaps you should have taken a strike in Syria to get chemical weapons out of Syria. Well, it turns out we’re getting chemical weapons out of Syria without having initiated a strike. So what else are you talking about? And at that point it kind of trails off.[...]

The point is that for some reason, many who were proponents of what I consider to be a disastrous decision to go into Iraq, haven’t really learned the lesson of the last decade, and they keep on just playing the same note over and over again. Why? I don’t know. But my job as Commander-in-Chief is to look at what is it that is going to advance our security interests over the long term, to keep our military in reserve for where we absolutely need it. There are going to be times where there are disasters and difficulties and challenges all around the world, and not all of those are going to be immediately solvable by us.

Obama concluded by saying on occasions when clear actions can be taken that would make a difference, then we should do so, but not because some guy behind a desk in Washington or New York or on a Sunday morning talk show thinks it would look strong.

Watch the exchange in the video below: