Copyrighted Image? DMCA | What both President Barack Obama and his GOP challenger Mitt Romney made clear to a nation exhausted by one decade of two bloody wars: The era of big military interventions is over. Romney, who earlier in the campaign sounded poised to embrace a more activist foreign policy, embraced a loudly centrist worldview that eschewed saber-rattling in favor of promoting entrepreneurship and civil society. But details remained fuzzy and real differences with the president harder to discern. Both men seem to have decided that, in this most domestic-focused of elections, dwelling on foreign policy would only lose voters' interest. Even answers to global questions arrived in local wrapping. |