Courting a Vital Closet Ally: Obama in Indonesia
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › November 12, 2010
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Barack Obama's return to Indonesia, the land of his childhood, was more than a sentimental journey.
It was to affirm a quiet US relationship with a significant Islamic nation where democracy burgeons, but which carefully hews to international non-alignment.See the full content of this document
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Courting a Vital Closet Ally: Obama in Indonesia
Indonesia is the largest, but non-Arab, Muslim country in the world. It has survived colonization by the Dutch, World War II occupation by the Japanese, a fateful dalliance with communism under former President Sukar...
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