Perry Scolds Obama's Foreign Policy

Texas Governor Rick Perry held a news conference on Tuesday to criticize President Obama’s management of America’s diplomacy efforts abroad.

Speaking in New York, where Obama is this week attending the United Nations General Assembly, the GOP presidential hopeful characterized Obama’s foreign policy — particularly regarding the Middle East — as being guided by “appeasement.”

Perry, who leads the rest of the Republican field in most polls, blasted an attempt by the Palestinian Authority to gain statehood through the UN, arguing that Obama has lent the Palestinians momentum.

“We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership,” Perry said. “And we are equally indignant that the Obama administration’s Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith.”