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This Is What Soft Power Looks Like

By The Daily Dish
Jun 18 2009, 4:51 AM ET

Mark Shea:

What strikes me about it is how deeply the American love of freedom has permeated the Iranian resistance to the regime--and all without a shot being fired or a bomb being dropped.

I am not such a pollyanna as to think that should the regime suffer a defeat the New Guy will be a Messiah. But it gives me great hope nonetheless to see the Vanguard of Radical Islam being beaten back by a massive indigenous movement within the Islamosphere. About the only people I can see who find this a bad thing are some End to Evil warmongers whose every idea led to disaster over the past eight years.


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