America's foreign policy after Bush

«Most importantly, the next president will want to broaden American foreign policy from its preoccupation with the “war on terror”. The Olympic games in Beijing this summer will remind Americans of China's growing economic might, at a time when America is nervous about its own economic performance and faces powerful protectionist pressures at home. Russia's growing authoritarianism and assertiveness is also bound to pose a big strategic problem.
Even so, the issues that dominated the Bush presidency will not go away. Defeating radical Islam will remain a mainspring of American policy. Al-Qaeda still seems determined to inflict massive casualties on America's civilian population. It is still powerful and continues to pursue biological and even nuclear weapons. The president's first job is to protect the American people from attack, so al-Qaeda will remain an overriding worry. »

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