Comments on: CLINTON CONFIRMATION: Can We Have Some Smart-Power Clarity, Please?

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:18:47 +0000

Actually it was coined by Suzanne Nossel several years earlier and was the title of a 2004 Foreign Affairs article she wrote.

By: Rena_Silverman

Rena_Silverman — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:29:15 +0000

The Washington Post referred to "smart power" as:

"One of HRC's favorite buzz phrases, but what does this really mean?
'Dumb power' is bombs, I guess -- but isn't 'smart power' just another
word for diplomacy?"

For clarification:
http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2008/NyeTes...

This my friend is the "dumb power" that "HRC" wishes to reverse.

I am confident that Sen. Clinton will answer every single question, dodging any attempted hits with articulate and intellectual responses.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:18:47 +0000

Actually it was coined by Suzanne Nossel several years earlier and was the title of a 2004 Foreign Affairs article she wrote.

By: Rena_Silverman

Rena_Silverman — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:29:15 +0000

The Washington Post referred to "smart power" as:

"One of HRC's favorite buzz phrases, but what does this really mean?
"Dumb power" is bombs, I guess -- but isn't "smart power" just another
word for diplomacy?"

For clarification:
http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2008/NyeTes...

This my friend is the "dumb power" that "HRC" wishes to reverse.

I am confident that Sen. Clinton will answer every single question, dodging any attempted hits with articulate and intellectual responses.