A third reason for the modest impact of international issues on voters’ choice of the next president is another surprising development: more agreement between and among the leading candidates than meets the eye. There is something of a consensus, for example, emerging around the notion that the US should remain in Iraq for some time to come, albeit with a reduced level of military forces.
国际问题对于选民选择下一任总统的决定影响不太大的第三个原因是事态另一个惊人的发展：就是居于领先的候选人在许多问题上的观点有很大的相似之处。比如说，大家对美军应该在伊拉克停留相当长一段时间有某种共识，尽管他们对于应该削减多少兵力意见也许不尽一致。