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To: tekboy who wrote (64530)	1/5/2003 10:36:49 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 281500

PS I think "soft power" is less temporary favorable opinion than a general durable appeal of our model, akin to a sort of Gramscian ideological hegemony that complements our more traditional material hegemony. So I don't see even these bozos undermining it--again, at least not yet. Well, let's hope you are right. My wife watched a bit of Wolf Blitzer today around lunch and said Scowcroft and Brezsinski (terrible spelling) were the guests. Each agreed that the distaste for the US in other parts of the globe, while a factor before Bush II came into office, had accelerated dramatically since. If she quoted Scowcroft correctly, that's extremely surprising. There are several places I would think to look for the consequences here, all of them having to do with the relative constrictions on the foreign policy actions of governments because of their citizenry's growing distaste for, at least, current American foreign policy. Gramsci!! You are spending too much time at home these days. Need to take a lecture tour or two. Perhaps China. ;-)

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