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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "McCain Linked to Iraq, Foreign Focus."
Like no other candidate, John McCain has linked his campaign for president to an unpopular war — and to a lifelong focus on foreign issues that many voters ignore. [. . .]
Jon Alterman, a former Bush administration aide who now runs the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, notes that Bush's father spoke of "the vision thing."
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