Barack Obama and the uses of doubt

Nearly all major American candidates for high office share common foreign policy objectives, provided one speaks very generally. For example, they all wish to protect America from great harm, and they all, I assume, would prefer to see Israel survive in one form or another.
Thus, it is valid, if trite, to observe that the main difference among competing candidates often comes down to

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