"It's all related," Rogers, R-Mich., told "Fox News Sunday." "The world sees the United States as withdrawn."
Rogers said the president's apparent disengagement or slow response is the reason China has engaged U.S. pilots and Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...has moved into eastern Ukraine without fear of consequence.
"U.S. foreign policy is in free fall," he said. "Traditional allies are saying maybe the United States is not the best to lead us."
The president faces a big test later this week when he travels to Europe for a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
summit where he hopes to build a coalition to stop Islamic State, the terror group formerly known as ISIS, and other murderous Moslem groups in the Middle East.
Rogers told Fox News he doesn't believe White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest when he said last week that military options are "still being developed."