Bruce Reidel writes again - taking a global, strategic look - in a 'War of Ideas' commentary and concludes:
The defeat of Islamic extremism requires both hard and soft power responses. Drones need be matched with deeds that expose the false precepts of Al Qaeda's narrative. Today the hard power part of our war effort is stretched across Africa and Asia. And the soft-power part of the strategy? That appears, at best, to be feeble, at worst to have atrophied altogether.
Link:http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-no-idea.html?