Tuesday, April 21, 2009
"... foreign policy is about the clash of vested interests - the impact of 'goodwill' on such is tangential at best - unless of course it is a symptom of a decline in relative power - our future status viz China, whether cooperative or antagonistic, will not be decided because Obama built up goodwill in the 'world community' but may be decided because the desire for such pushes our policies in certain directions leading China to perceive us as either weak or strong accordingly - if foreign policy is all about a clash of vested interests then power matters, strength matters, both actual and perceived - goodwill is a mere sideshow. So far Obama, from his meaningless if not dangerously naive rhetoric concerning a nuclear free world to 'the handshake', appears to prefer the sideshow..."
