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President Obama and post-war foreign policy.

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The president told West Point's graduating cadets today that many critical problems don't need military solutions. He said the U.S. is countering Russian

expansion and Iran's development of nuclear weapons by leading multilateral diplomacy.

The point is this is American leadership. This is American strength.

We'll hear more about the president's much-awaited foreign policy guidelines, including a strategy for combating terrorism.

What did he leave out?

Today's talking point is Amazon, guilty of blackmail and censorship.

First, here's the news.

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Cadets graduating from West Point today won't be going to war in Iraq or Afghanistan.

We'll hear what President Obama told them about his vision for the military and its role in foreign policy for the future.

Today's talking point, Amazon's being accused of abusing its Internet power to blackmail publishers into paying higher fees and even to censor critical publications by making them unavailable.

We'll hear about the Battle of the Books online.

First, this news update in a recent interview with NBC's Brian Williams in Moscow, Edward Snowden

said that the U.S. labeled him a low-level hacker to, as he put it, distract from the

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