Published 12/27/2008
at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - The international to-do list President George W. Bush hands to his successor has a lot of boxes marked "incomplete." Some of Bush's foreign policy and security priorities were overtaken by the two expensive wars that outlast him. In other cases Bush ran out of time or political capital, or was vexed by the realities of a new world where even close allies don't always cater to American whims.
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