This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, April 9, 2012. I'm Caleb Brown.

Mitt Romney senses foreign policy weakness in President Obama, but it's not clear how he would criticize

that weakness. Obama's foreign policy has largely mirrored that of George W Bush,

even extended broad assertions of executive power.

John Mueller is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

His most recent book is Terror, Security and

Money, Balancing the risks, benefits, and costs of homeland security, we spoke Friday.

No, it's hard to see what he's what he's talking about and to agree what's happened is Obama's

taken that somewhat off the table. You could use a comparison. Bill Clinton seemed to

be vulnerable in his first term particularly because of Somalia and sort of the back down from there, though no

one wanted to go back in.

But then in 1995, he was able basically to resolve the Bosnian issue and look pretty

good. Now people were not very concerned about the Bosnian issue and look pretty good.

Now people were not very concerned about the Bosnian issue.

In fact, they were mainly worried that we might send troops and they'd be, you know, bogged down

in some sort of war there.

But it came off pretty well. By 1996 when Clinton ran for his second term,

it wasn't that the foreign policy was a big issue

or the people even remembered Bosnia or Somalia for that matter, but essentially

foreign policy been taken off the agenda. And I think that's probably what's

happening currently. The analogy would be that

the Obama's people are not paying that much attention to foreign policy. They're much more obviously concerned with the domestic issues,

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