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so we go now to our daily fix, chris cillizza and jeanne cummings.eign policy is not generally what people wrote on in midterm or in president elections but it now matters more than ever, at least in terms of leadership potential. chris? >> absolutely. we have john kerry who is going to be traveling in the region very soon, going to jordan and some of the neighboring countries around iraq and so we have all -- we have lots of moving parts here as the white house tries to implement a plan that it doesn't have really total control over because what the president has talked about is u.s. air strikes but getting the sunni tribes and some of the neighboring leadership, those countries involved in trying to contain isis. and so it is very much a diplomatic mission because it needs to cobble together a coalition, some folks who may or may not want to get involved, how much they want to get involved, how closely they want to be tied to the u.s. at this particular moment, lots of layers to be sorted through. >> and chris cillizza, dan was writing over the wee