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October 5, 2012

U.S. on Road to 'Emotional Isolationism'

Tom Plate, Japan Times

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Foreign policy has suddenly surfaced, like a leviathan sea monster, crawling onto the beach of the U.S. presidential campaign. If I were an incumbent American president seeking re-election, I might be worried.

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