President Obama planned to spend some time focusing on the broad foreign policy goal of bolstering the western alliance — staring down Vladimir Putin and reassuring a jittery Europe after the Brexit vote.
Instead, he is cutting his trip to Europe short to return to a country torn apart by horrifying violence, partisan divisions and an escalation of racial clashes that have become all too familiar in recent years.
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