WHAT GIVES : Striking the balance
Obama seeks to open doors on a precarious world stage
Posted: September 27, 2009 at 9:17 a.m.
President George W. Bush undoubtedly did quite a bit of damage to the United States' international relations with his defiantly unilateral approach to foreign policy. I suspect there are few of us, if we were president, who would have been able to resist a hardening of a cooperative spirit after terrorists, aided directly and indirectly by some nations, committed such a dastardly act as the Sept. 11, 2001, murders in New York and Washington, D.C.
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