Obama says diplomacy, military go hand in hand - washingtonpost

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- The U.S. must shape a world order as reliant on the force of diplomacy as on the might of its military to lead, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he outlined a foreign policy vision that repudiated the go-it-alone approach forged by his predecessor, George W. Bush.

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