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More Gridlock Will Weaken US Influence Abroad
Posted at 8:45 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2012
Anne-Marie Slaughter: “if US politicians spend the next two years the way they have spent the last two – patching together temporary policy fixes while avoiding the hard issues that voters and markets expect them to face – America’s voice will grow fainter, and weaker, in international institutions and affairs. Equally worrisome is the prospect of deep, across-the-board cuts in the US defense budget at a time when many rising powers are increasing their defense spending.”
“The longer the US obsesses over its own political dysfunction and attendant economic stagnation, the less likely it is to bear the mantle of global responsibility and leadership. Openly isolationist political forces, such as the Tea Party and libertarians like Ron Paul, will grow stronger.”
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