Obama Steps Further Away From Bush's Foreign Policy

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President Obama made clear during five wide-ranging television interviews Sunday that he had firmly turned the page on the George W. Bush administration's foreign policy, which he described as unfocused and "adrift" in Afghanistan as well as outdated in its approach to a possible Iranian missile threat.

Using some of his strongest language to date, Mr. Obama said he inherited failing American policies in Afghanistan and on missile defense, and set about in both cases to initiate a fresh approach.

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Obama Steps Further Away From Bush's Foreign Policy

"When I came in, Afghanistan was adrift because we frankly hadn't focused on it," Mr. Obama told Bob Schieffer, host of CBS' "Face the Nation." "My job is to make sure that we get a strategy that focuses on my core goal, which is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and i...

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