Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
That “soft” power was useful in the Cold War but when it turned inwardly to protect not We The People but the Bureaucracy it definitely had to be taken down.
The “soft power” is still there, but it’s all through the internet now, especially X. When I go to foreign countries, I’m constantly amazed about how much they know, and how interested they are, about what’s going on in America, they know more than I do! Now we can debate whether X and the internet are for the good or not, but that soft power is still there.
A very narrow definition of soft power. National power is usually spoken of in the acronym DIME (Diplomacy/ Information/ Military/ Economic). Past criticism, rightly, pointed out the US relied on the Military too much. This chap says all about Information. The fact is the greatest element of US soft power is and always has been it’s Economic might.
Let us not forget that these Swamp-run implements of soft power whose loss is lamented were generally socialist and immoral. As such they always left half of America unexpressed, no matter which party held the reins.
Aye. I think the radio services operated by the VoA’s parent agency might be redundant in this environment, but I’d doubt they were destructive. The stages of USAID’s decay into an atrocious Democratic Party piggy bank would be interesting to know. Samantha Power’s greasy fingerprints have been found on a couple of episodes of gross abuse of power.
BTW, ‘soft power’ is a fantasy of Canadian politicians. It does not exist.
Poster complaining about the loss of the free foreign aid train has Ukraine flag in bio.
Checks out.
I believe the sort of aid salient to the war effort in the Ukraine would have been delivered through the ‘Defense Security Co-operation Agency’, not USAID. (Though, given what USAID was up to here and there, who knows).