Forbes.com
President Obama in his State of the Union address on Tuesday gave scant time to foreign policy, and just one long sentence to the Asia-Pacific--object of his foreign policy pivot in 2011, and a region on which he said the U.S. "will continue to focus." To illustrate that focus, he gave just one specific example: typhoon relief last year to the Philippines, where American Marines and civilian aid workers were greeted with words such as "God bless America."