Hong’s Cave

Well, Mr. Nye’s book presented a somewhat obvious (at least to everyone other than the U.S. policy makers) idea on the American foreign policies. The book went on, somewhat repeatedly, about the maintenance of the great soft power (i.e., cultural and ideological influences) potentials for the U.S. along with effective applications of the U.S.’s uncontested hard power (i.e., military and economic influences).

Anyway, Mr. Nye’s proposals seem quite reasonable, but I am not sure if any of the U.S.’s current policy makers will actually listen to him. It’s not just the U.S., but I feel like the whole World is turning into right-wing, and extreme at that.

Is it because of the beginning of a new century? Are we going to run into another catastrophic conflict because the involved parties had no flexibility? I hope not.