Feb 9, 2011
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NED Described as "Smart Power" in Roll Call
“Budget Cuts Threaten America’s Soft Power,” by Norm Ornstein in Roll Call.
Ornstein writes,
"That is the power of smart power — the ability to use aid, diplomacy and the military as synergistic forces to pursue our national interest while also enabling the economic prosperity and rule of law in other societies. The result provides freedom and justice for them, infertile territory for terrorists, and markets for our goods and services to enable us to maintain our edge in the global economy. Ronald Reagan, the progenitor of the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute and the U.S. Institute of Peace, and George W. Bush, responsible in large part for the Millennium Challenge Corp., among other innovations, both understood this point…"
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