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Once Again, U.S. ‘Soft Power’ Lays a Big Goose Egg
Family Security Matters ^ | Sept 15, 2009 | James Carafano

Posted on 09/15/2009 5:27:05 AM PDT by captjanaway

Remember Dickens: “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.”

That’s pretty much what we saw on the national security front last week.

Here is the worst: White House “soft power,” struck out twice last week.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; obama; russia

1 posted on 09/15/2009 5:27:06 AM PDT by captjanaway
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To: captjanaway

Good article...

It’s counter-intuitive, given all of his Domestic Agenda problems lately, but it’s possible that Foreign Policy blunders may be what brings down the amateurish Obama Administration....


2 posted on 09/15/2009 5:37:23 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: captjanaway

Teddy Roosevelt: Speak softly and carry a big stick.

BHO: Apologize to everyone for existing and beg them not to hit you.


3 posted on 09/15/2009 5:46:39 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of misery.)
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To: captjanaway

And Rudyard Kipling wrote; “Now is the best of times, if we but know what to do with it.”


4 posted on 09/15/2009 6:05:06 AM PDT by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonyous)
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