The Democratic Party released a draft of its platform (PDF) on Thursday. The fifty-four page document includes sections on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new U.S.-Pakistan partnership, homeland security, and nuclear non-proliferation, among other foreign policy topics. Much of the agenda is consistent with Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy plan, including the goal of “responsibly redeploying our combat forces from Iraq and refocusing them on urgent missions.”

In a statement on the tenth anniversary of bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said the attacks “proved the vulnerability of U.S. installations overseas, and demonstrated — to any that needed further evidence — that al-Qaeda was a well-funded, organized and treacherous terrorist organization determined to kill Americans.” He said the U.S. response at the time was “wholly inadequate.”

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