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How Obama Can Restore American Idealism

We have all heard the power of Barack Obama’s oratory, and that too can be an essential tool in foreign policy.

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Now the hard part begins. To make the ideal real, or vice versa, is never as easy as it sounds in a speech. Well before the last “Yes We Can” poster was carted away from Grant Park, the world’s leaders were sending signals that once the party ended, they would...

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