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Fourth in a Series Stock analysts used to say, "As General Motors goes, so goes the country." Political analysts soon may be saying the same thing. GM's pension and retirement promises have much in common with Washington's Social Security and Medicare promises: In the long term, none can be kept.
U.S. government agencies are hampered in their efforts to improvepublic diplomacy by a combination of poor leadership, inadequatecoordination, and insufficient resources. As we seek to improve theU.S. image abroad and engage in a war of ideas with Muslimextremism, improving the relevant public diplomacy structures ofthe U.S. government are crucial.
U.S. military dominance goes largely unquestioned. No army can hold a battlefield against our troops. No planes can ground our Air Force. No enemy ships can challenge our naval dominance. hales, though, are a different story.
Thanks to American intervention, the fate of Iraq and Afghanistan now can be determined by their own citizens, rather than by brutal tyrants.
Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan wouldn't have agreed on much. But both men understood one thing: Military weakness invites trouble.