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Next president must have world view with allies

May 15, 2008 By STEVE KETTMANN Steve Kettmann's latest book is the forthcoming "Letter to a New President," co-written with Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.). He lives in Berlin.

If there is one issue on which the three remaining presidential candidates seem to agree, it's the need to repair relations with our key allies, badly damaged by the Bush administration's toxic combination of arrogance and ineptitude.

As easy a task as this might seem from the perspective of the campaign trail, the tricky reality is that moving beyond the jagged wreckage of the Bush years...

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