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2006-03-07 Europe

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Posted by ed 2006-03-07 16:45|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Excellent piece, but nothing terribly surprising. Just a clean, concise, accurate indictment of the absurd concept known as soft power. And a glimpse of the decline of those that have chosen it, in lock-step with socialism.

The little graphic in the piece is excellent!

Quibble with next-to-last sentence...

"It will continue to operate on the diplomatic field and cling to soft power even though this is the path of certain defeat when confronted with power players burning with geopolitical and religious ambitions."

Change "religious" to "ideological" and I'd say the article is essentially letter-perfect.

Thx for the link, ed - I'll forward this one on, heh.

Posted by .com 2006-03-07 19:38|| 2006-03-07 19:38|| Front Page Top

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