Washington Post,April 5, 2009 on page A10:
President Obama tries to set a new, pragmatic tone:
Jeremy Shapiro, director of research for the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution said, "Europeans are hungry for American leadership but tired of American arrogance."
Neil Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, said "the approach is not without risks. Obama has embarked on a new course that projects humility and an overbearing desire to apologize for America's past behavior."
"This is a high-risk strategy that could well backfire," Gardiner said. "There is a real danger that the US will be seen as a soft touch, both by European partners as well as by America's biggest enemies, from Al-Qaeda to the mullahs of Tehran."
Let it be known that the meek would catch the hearts and the minds of the people in nations. Asians are under the influence of Confucianism with focus on humility and modesty. President Obama's good demeanor would be the smart diplomacy in the 21st century for USA to search for global peace and development.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,an octogenarian and a lifelong student of Confucianism and economics on Sunday,April 5, 2009 at 1.56 p.m.
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