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The midterm elections are just five days away. When the new Congress takes office in January members will work with President Barack Obama on several foreign policy issues.  

MPR's Cathy Wurzer recently talked with the top candidates for one of Minnesota's Senate seats about foreign polic. Then, Wurzer discussed the candidates's comments with James Jeffrey at the Washington Institute.  

Jeffrey served as ambassador to Iraq under President Obama and was deputy national security adviser during the George W. Bush administration. Both Franken and McFadden have focused on the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, during the campaign. The Obama administration has been accused of being too slow to act in Syria and withdrawing too fast from Iraq.

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MPR's Cathy Wurzer examines foreign policy comments by incumbent Democratic Sen. Al Franken and GOP challenger Mike McFadden, and how they stack up to analysis by James Jeffrey of the Washington Institute.

The midterm elections are just five days away, and when the new Congress takes office in January, it will have to work with President Obama on a number of significant foreign policy issues.  MPR's Cathy Wurzer talked recently with the top candidates for one of Minnesota's U.S. Senate seats about some foreign policy issues, and then checked what they had to say with James Jeffrey at the Washington Institute.  Jeffrey served as ambassador to Iraq under President Obama and was deputy national security advisor during the George W. Bush administration.  One of the issues incumbent Democratic Sen. Al Franken and GOP challenger Mike McFadden have focused on is the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and its brutal terroristic tactics.  The Obama administration has been accused of being too slow to act in Syria and withdrawing too fast from Iraq, moves that left a power vacuum that allowed for the rise of ISIS.  Here's what the two candidates had to say to Wurzer about that, and other foreign policy issues, along with analysis from Ambassador Jeffrey.

Analysis: Do Franken, McFadden foreign policy positions stack up?

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