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Chuck Todd: Obama’s Foreign Policy ‘Doesn’t Match’ His ‘Rhetoric’ [VIDEO]

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“Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd criticized President Obama’s foreign policy rhetoric Friday, which he said doesn’t “match” his actual policy, especially against ISIS and terror.

Todd told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that while Obama says the U.S. wants to “destroy ISIS,” the official policy is much closer to containment. The NBC News host also likened Obama to the very neoconservatives he likes to criticize.

“The problem with the president’s policy is the policy doesn’t match the rhetoric,” Todd told Joe Scarborough. “The rhetoric is destroy ISIS — the policy they are implementing is closer to contain. It is not a destruction policy.”

“Isn’t it interesting the president has always rhetorically overreached,” Scarborough said before rattling off examples.

“Oh, absolutely,” Todd responded.

“Assad must go. Gaddaffi must go. Everybody must go,” Scarborough said.

“Also Iran should not have any nuclear program whatsoever,” said Jeffrey Goldberg of “The Atlantic.” “Don’t forget that one.”

“It’s the rhetoric. He gets caught up in and — you, know it’s funny. It’s like on one hand, he wants to criticize. He’s been very critical of neoconservatives and their, sort of, rush to war type of rhetoric and things like that. His rhetoric sometimes sounds very similar,” Todd said. “The policy is very different, but it’s almost as if he’s afraid to sell the idea of containment or stability. And you know what, there is a lot of Americans that are pro-containment, by the way, which is sort of, you know what, keep that mess over there.”

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[h/t: RCP]