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My opinion is that a U.S. President should not "visit" any people where the security requirements are such that the "people" aren't actually visited.

If the Senegals made the decision to "detain" it's people for the event, we (the U.S. Gov.) should make a big stink about it.

If the U.S. Gov. knew in advance that this would happen and went along with it, that was a stupid decision.

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I agree. If the residents were overly inconvenienced for the sake of a photo op, then our going along with it was indeed a bad move. A certain amount of inconvenience is to be expected with the visit of any dignitary and I suspect Clinton's visit caused some problems for the locals too (that they now conveniently forget), but if the security precautions were such that they had to evacuate the entire village to stage this event, then perhaps the propriety of holding such an event should have been seriously questioned.

Bad publicity goes alot farther than good publicity.

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