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President Obama held a news conference on Saturday in Strasbourg following the NATO conference at which he was asked about whether he held to a view of American exceptionalism. The following segment is quoted from the transcript released by the White House and may be found on CQ Politics:
Ed Luce, from the Financial Times. Where’s [...]

Stratfor’s newsletter of yesterday, Obama Enters the Great Game, examined two foreign policy issues that will confront our new president early on in his administration.
Obama has acknowledged that Afganistan is a priority issue and that he will move troops from Iraq to there in order to try to execute the Gen. David Petraeus strategy. At [...]