President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Wednesday, in which he’s expected to defend America’s response to a number of foreign policy crises that have gripped his administration.
The commander-in-chief is set to lay out a broader vision for U.S. foreign policy that relies on multilateral diplomacy versus military intervention.
A White House official told Reuters over the weekend that Obama will “discuss how the United States will use all the tools in our arsenal without over-reaching,” adding that he will lay out a policy that “is both interventionist and internationalist, but not isolationist or unilateral.”
The president has faced a slew of international crises in his second term – from the chemical attacks in Syria, to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of the Crimea region in Ukraine, to revelations that the National Security Agency was spying on foreign leaders.









