Making up for America’s lost clout
By Ray Takeyh and Nikolas Gvosdev | Sunday, April 12, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…After eight years of the Bush administration’s folly and miscalculation, it appears that America’s kit of coercive tools is limited and diminishing. In the aftermath of the Iraq war disaster, the notion that the US military might be deployed to pressure or even overthrow a recalcitrant regime is fanciful. A beleaguered country struggling to escape its Iraqi quagmire is neither feared nor respected by any potential antagonist….”…BS
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