The Biden team has a choice to make: in foreign policy, do they look to Obama or Trump?
“Being powerful,” said Margaret Thatcher, “is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
Like an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove, that maxim packs the punch of someone who faced down the Soviets, plus Britain’s overweening trade unions, and fought the Falklands War thousands of miles from home shores.
A slightly less elegant definition of power comes from someone with more meager experience in statesmanship.
“Power,” reads the Guttentag doctrine, “is a function of your foes’ belief that you’ll use it.”
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