Lost in the shuffle over the health care controversy comes this word. President Barack Obama is heading back to the Asia-Pacific on a big trip early next year to further the US geostrategic shift. There is no question that the federal government shutdown debacle, which prevented Obama from taking part in long-planned Asian summitry and first ever visit to the Philippines, was bad for America's geopolitical pivot from from fateful over-engagement with the Islamic world of the Middle East and...
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