The foreign policy views of the man who plans to be the next president of the United States are shaped by…

ZAKARIA: Tell me, what is your first memory of a foreign policy event that shaped you, shaped your life? OBAMA: A first memory. Well, you know, it wasn’t so much an event. I mean, my first memory was my mother coming to me and saying, “I’ve remarried this man from Indonesia, and we’re moving to Jakarta on the other side of the world.” And that’s, I think, my first memory of understanding how big the world was. And then, flying there and landing. This was only maybe a year, or even less than a year, after an enormous coup, the military coup in which we learned later that over half-a-million people had probably died. But it was for me, as a young boy, a magical place. And I think that probably is when it first enters into my consciousness that this is a big world. There are a lot of countries, a lot of cultures. It’s a complicated place.