Obama: Trip Reinforced Policies

Barack Obama meets with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the garden of Number 10 Downing Street in London Saturday. (AP Photo) Barack Obama said Saturday that his weeklong trip to Europe and the Middle East only reinforced his foreign policy views, telling FOX News that his proposed troop withdrawal timetable and other military strategies will stay in place if he is elected president. Rival John McCain had criticized Obama for setting his policies toward Iraq and Afghanistan before traveling to the two war zones. He argued Obama was stubbornly rejecting the advice of commanders before even meeting with them. But the Illinois senator said Saturday, shortly before heading home to Chicago, that his observations overseas affirmed he had a grasp of the “broad strategic outlines” before going. “What happens on a trip like... [read full story]