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To: Ilaine who wrote (38932)	8/20/2002 12:49:48 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Hmm, if anyone in the Bush administration was interested in my view on that issue, I would argue it requires multiple strategies. It's not just pour in the weapons, equip the local military, and let them shoot it up. It requires a lot of cooperation from local governments, even dictators; it requires not alienating populations (perhaps contradictory in some countries to the previous point, but one that needs to be remembered); it requires creating a better image for the US abroad; and it requires force. I have Joseph Nye's book on my reading shelf in which he uses the term "soft power." I haven't read him yet, but I think I'm talking about the same thing. And I think Goldfarb is talking about it as well.