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Doyle McManus: Erratic foreign policy shows President Trump unbound

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's foreign policy is looking dangerously erratic - and that's being charitable.

He threatens to bomb Iranian cultural sites, but aides say he still wants to negotiate with the mullahs in Tehran.

He's announced several times that he's withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan, only to reverse himself and leave the troops in place.

He demands that North Korea's Kim Jong Un dismantle his nuclear weapons, then says it doesn't really matter that Kim has continued to build more.

No wonder allies and adversaries alike can't figure out what our

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