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Ingrid Betancourt's liberation is yet another vindication of much-reviled hard power.
In the Bush years, hard power is terribly out of fashion, seen as a mere obsession of cowboys and neocons. Both in Europe and America, the sophisticates worship at the altar of "soft power" the use of diplomatic and moral resources to achieve one's ends.
What is done to free these people? Nothing. Everyone knows it will take the hardest of hard power to remove the oppressors in Zimbabwe, Burma, Sudan, and other godforsaken places where the bad guys have the guns and use them......
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And so the innocent languish, as did Betancourt, until some local power, inexplicably under the sway of the Bush notion of hard power, gets it done â;; often with the support of the American military. "Behind the rescue in a jungle clearing stood years of clandestine American work," explained the Washington Post. "It included the deployment of elite U.S. Special Forces . . . a vast intelligence-gathering operation . . . and training programs for Colombian troops."
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