Benj — Soft power is a fantasy of Liberals. It does nothing. Clinton wielded Soft Power and got terrorist atrocity after terrorist atrocity. Had the 1993 plotters been a bit better at placing their bombs they would have killed 50,000 people by toppling one tower onto another, their stated goal.

FEAR, and the fear specifically of the US destroying the base of power economically of tribe, most of it’s young men, and it’s tribal leaders (killing them) leaving them weak, poor, and at the dubious mercy of tribal enemies is the ONLY way for the US in a nuclear proliferating world to keep our cities intact.

Ask yourself, who is the most likely to instill RAW FEAR in the hearts and minds of tribal leaders in Pakistan, in Iran, and other Muslim nations? It is not Obama.