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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Richard Adams

Soft power

Writing in the Atlantic, Andrew Sullivan suggests what an Obama presidency would mean for the West's image throughout the rest of the world:

Consider this hypothetical. It's November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man - Barack Hussein Obama - is the new face of America. In one simple image, America's soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm.


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