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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Terrible Twins: Turkey, Brazil and the Future of American Foreign Policy. ?If?

By Glenn Reynolds

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Terrible Twins: Turkey, Brazil and the Future of American Foreign Policy. “If you combine the geopolitical and cultural realities, you see two countries whose interests are diverging from those of the United States and are also increasingly shaped by cultural forces that oppose the historical American project of building a global liberal capitalist order. That is a powerful combination of forces, and no one should think that the recent foreign policy conflicts with the United States are small things. Something fundamental is changing here, and we, the Turks and the Brazilians will only slowly come to understand what has happened and what it means.” Actually, I think the Turks and the Brazilians have a pretty good idea what’s going on. Our “smart diplomacy,” however, seems behind the curve.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 05, 2010 (boomark / email).