What didn't get mentioned in last night's debate

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I guess it's a small world after all. Courtesy of the New York Times' handy debate transcript analyzer, here's some evidence of the narrowness of America's current foreign-policy dialogue:

Candidate Mentions in Last Night's Debate

• Iraq: 10
• China: 5 (Tancredo and Hunter only) 
• Afghanistan: 3
• Europe: 1 (a complaint from Giuliani about subsidies)
• Iran: 1
• Russia: 0
• India: 0
• North Korea: 0
• Proliferation: 0
• Nuclear: 0
• Diplomacy: 0
• Sudan or Darfur: 0
• Pakistan: 0
• United Nations: 0

Immigration? The candidates mentioned it 25 times.