than a pseudo nation state able to do able to do much more. it s going to take a long time, the biggest question is what s going to happen afterwards. for example, if the shia ma ligss are involved in the liberation of mosul it will set the stage for creating a vacuum for a future isis to fill a gap. this is just another chapter. i want to ask you quickly, richard, one of the central themes and criticisms of donald trump against hillary clinton is that the obama foreign policy guided and helped for four years by secretary clinton created the vacuum that led to isis. is that a fair criticism? it added to the vacuum that created isis, you had things in the middle east itself to explain t but sure, what the united states has not done in syria, the pull out of troops in iraq, afghanistan, going into libya and with no follow-up plan, sure, we helped create geo strategic vacuums that isis and
our economy is relatively stable. unemployment is low as it should be and our growth isn t as fast as it, or as big as it feeds to be. but the fundamentals are certainly much better than china s. and chances are, most of the people i talk to today think that our stock market is going to snap back. and china has some serious problems that will have a ripple effect for us. but donald trump has got this back you know what-wards. charles, take donald trump out of this equation and the politics and 2016 out of this. and talk about you know, this situation in china as it relates to the obama foreign policy. and how it ripples through the world. well, look, the chinese are our principal rivals in the world. you could say the russians, but in the longer run, the threat is the chinese. i agree the idea has been that the chinese are overtaking us. you get the tom friedmans of the
north korea has done with its nuclear program. admits first acknowledges it had a secret program in 2002. conducted its first underground test, 2006. second test after walking away from talks, 2009. 2013, third test using what it called a miniaturized nuclear device, and january, just this past couple of days, north korea claiming it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. what about this, what it says about obama foreign policy. let s bring in charles lane, opinion writer for the washington post. editor in chief, of life set laura ingram and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? this is reminder that history has not been kind to that proposition. north korea has been sort of fiddling with one american administration after another starting way back really with
nuclear device that north korea already has. those questions still unanswered. within hours of north korea claiming its first hydrogen bomb test, republican candidates already had a scapegoat, the obama foreign policy. donald trump telling wolf blitzer china has total control over them and we have total control over china if they knew what they were doing, which we don t. reporter: much like his fellow candidates had earlier in the date. this is what a weak american leadership gets you. americans should be very, very concerned. it s an example of a withdrawn american in the world. reporter: north koreans cheered in the streets following the bold announcement of a first for the isolated nation. a successful test of a hydrogen bomb, many times more powerful than the atomic bomb pyongyang
egypt, libya, down the list and look at what is happening in afghanistan. this is the clinton-obama foreign policy. she takes credit for libya in her book saying i am the one who takes ownership of this and benghazi. we know she is incompetent but iow worst of all she looked the families of the four dead service members in the eye and lied. the way she got into fact we are at the right place where we need to be in her strategy the primary contenders bernie sanders and martin o malley were criticizing her for backing regime change in place like libya and sea and countered with those are complex problems and said the line everybody is talking about today. she was trying to pivot.