Well, it hasn’t worked – from Der Spiegel (for you liberals out there, that is a German – ie, foreign, ie better-than-America-in-your-view – magazine):
Obama’s Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage
When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it’s not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming.
The Germans may wish for that bit of Bush-style bluntness (we do, too!), but I can assure all and sundry, it isn’t coming. Not from Obama – not unless his wife takes him for a spine transplant. I expect Obama to just go from Bad to Carter in foreign affairs…
Making nice/nice doesn’t cut it in the world – not in a world where wicked people plot evil. As long as there are tyrants in China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and Syria, the key to peace and freedom will be the forceful use of raw, unapologetic, American power.
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