I am no fan of Mr Obama’s, but I suggest that he did a brilliant job of representing the United States in both Japan and China by desisting from the bullying and hectoring tone with which high representatives from the former country were wont to deal with representatives of the latter two. Given, times have changed and the United States no longer finds itself in a position to deal out orders to all and sundry, but the grace with which Mr Obama seems to have accepted this fact does him credit. If only he could apply the same insight and realism to his war of aggression in «Afpak» !…
I am no fan of Mr Obama’s, but I suggest that he did a brilliant job of representing the United States in both Japan and China by desisting from the bullying and hectoring tone with which high representatives from the former country were wont to deal with representatives of the latter two. Given, times have changed and the United States no longer finds itself in a position to deal out orders to all and sundry, but the grace with which Mr Obama seems to have accepted this fact does him credit. If only he could apply the same insight and realism to his war of aggression in «Afpak» !…
Henri