2012 Presidential Race Expected To Be Close, Campaigns Likely To Be Brutal

Actually, he didn't (make very hawkish foreign policy claims).  

Obama ran to the left of Hillary.  What he had to say about expanding the war in Afghanista­n was always couched in the rhetoric of the past.  Had he been president at the time of 9/11.  How he wouldn't have taken his eye off the ball (Al Qaeda in Afghanista­n) by attacking Iraq.  

His foreign policy would not be the expansion of the war, secret wars, going to wars in new countries.  And let us not forget how closing Guantanamo­, ending rendition and torture, this shift in the paradigm of how the US engages in the Middle East would take the targets off all Americans' backs.  Not only have we been disappoint­ed that Obama's rhetoric and promises turned out to be empty, but so have people around the world who had great expectatio­ns of him.  The audacity of hope.
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