Power Rules
Monday, April 13, 2009
Pulitzer Prize-winner and former New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb looks at the way power actually works in American in his book Power Rules.
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Leslie H. Gelb
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Comments [6]
Yes... let's all root for a weak America.
Power sucks.
Submission is so much fun.
Yippeee
You talk about American exceptionalism. At least over the past 50 years, USA has been exceptional where you have had most of the world off the playing field. We were the Harlem Globtrotters playing the Washington Generals. Now everyone else has their game on, it's going to be different.
What does he think of Samantha Power being a part of the Obama administration? Good sign?
Why should an american who is not Jewish care about Israel. My parents are from India, yet I do not want the USA to sacrifice anything for India regarding Kashmir.
the China? Really?
Ugh, this is difficult to listen to.
He has a simplistic, jingoistic, arrogant view of foreign policy. - I understand that the pirates are a group of criminals, but this guy is obviously missing a couple of screws.
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