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Fri 07 Jul 2007If I were president. . .US presidential hopeful, Democrat Barak Obama, outlines his foreign policy goals if elected to the White House.At moments of great peril in the last century, American leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F Kennedy managed both to protect the American people and to expand opportunity for the next generation. What is more, they ensured that America, by deed and example, led and lifted the world - that we stood for and fought for the freedoms sought by billions of people beyond our borders.