Peter Van Buren - We Meant Well

My single greatest disappointment was Obama's missed opportunity of the use of soft power. In the second GWB administration there was talk of applying Joseph Nye's concepts to bring a reduction of need for costly police actions such as the one in Iraq. Liberal America had decided Obama, with his experience in Indonesia schools, was the one to do it. The idea was America could co-opt Indonesia with cultural exchange, and then expand into other regions. Instead, I never saw one application of soft power during the Obama's tenure.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

Seeing no one else was doing it I tried it on my own. I tried to use whatever influence I could gain by using Current, and hence the reason for my posting so much news and entertainment from that part of the world.

It wasn't that hard. The problem, I felt, was that I was so alone. I was making friends overseas while not getting anywhere with people at home.