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World affairs have quieted down enough that America could afford to take a break and attend to its own business, says a noted foreign policy analyst.

"The biggest strategic question facing America is how to extend this respite rather than squander it," wrote Richard Haass in a 

 last June. "This will require restraining foreign involvement and restoring domestic strength. We can no longer seek to remake countries in the Middle East and South Asia, as was tried at great cost and with little success in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. More from his op-ed in the Times:

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Analyst finds the U.S. at an unusual moment in its history: It faces no immediate challenge from a great-power rival.

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