"The speech will come on the heels of his surprise Memorial Day weekend visit to Afghanistan; he arrived there Sunday. With the American presences in Iraq and Afghanistan ending but conflicts and trouble still raging all over the world and many unclear what Obama stands for, he’ll use the speech to try to explain himself and his larger vision, particularly as he looks to the back half of a second term, which is traditionally more focused on foreign policy.
“There’s a lot at stake, and now is the right time for this speech,” the official said. White House press secretary Jay Carney deflected questions last week as to whether the speech, delivered to the graduating class of Army cadets about to be dispatched around the world, will address the problems returning veterans have faced getting health care upon returning home due to the questions of backlogs and other alleged mismanagement that’s engulfed the Veterans Affairs Department in recent weeks. The president is not expected to make any new announcements about the situation at West Point, keeping his speech focused on foreign policy.
The speech will kick off a two-week period of intense focus on foreign policy from the president. It will stretch through another weeklong trip to Europe built around attending a 70th anniversary D-Day commemoration in Normandy that’s quickly become another part of his continuing effort to assert America’s role supporting the West in opposition to Putin.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/president-obama-west-point-commencement-speech-107075.html?hp=l1
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