Smart Power

Democracy in America
Islamic terrorism… all out global war practicing politics… wrong definition of terrorist challenge

Hard power/ soft power

Smart power
You have a toolbag, you have to look at your toolbag and ask yourself – what tools do I need to fix this problem?

Restore habeous corpus

How important is reputation?
Interest of other to couterbalance or resist us, heightens importance of everything… we need to invest issues

UN needs reform. Don’t walk away, just tweak it. Look to other institutions… league of democracies.
Destructive or useful?
Creating strong international institutions, only come after drastic take institutions – instead, refine, strengthen those smaller groups.

Diplomacy. Don’t talk until you have your shit together. You do need to talk though.

Energy independence. National energy strategy, best defense against crisis.

Embrace benign emperor? More selective in where and how we get engaged. Off shore balancer to negotiate problems, don’t become a key player.

Strengthen regional institutions. Mid-level organizations to take up slack.

Restoring trust, moral credibility is the preface to the book. That has to be done first. Promoting more than we are prepared to do, continued liberalization of global best at transforming societies… protectionism is rising, passes prologue.

Military should be repaired, not massive, but credible, flexible, useful to challenges. Tall order of developed world, address forcefully failing states, genocide, terrorism, starvation, there is less excuse not to address that particular problem.