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From 2008: Andrew Sullivan Predicts Good Muslim Relations Once Obama Elected
The next president has to create a sophisticated and supple blend of soft and hard power to isolate the enemy, to fight where necessary, but also to create an ideological template that works to the Wests advantage over the long haul. There is simply no other candidate with the potential of Obama to do this. Which is where his face comes in.Consider this hypothetical. Its November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this manBarack Hussein Obamais the new face of America. In one simple image, Americas soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obamas face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can. Posted by: Unuque Angegum6185 2012-09-12 |
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