Last but not least, it is time that America listens to people like Carter, Chomsky and Joseph Nye to emerge as a soft power. If regime change by mass upsurge is that desirable to America, it should have condemned the Bahraini regime (and Saudi Arabia) for crushing the popular upsurge in Bahrain, which incidentally, is an American naval base for its Sixth Fleet. Otherwise, decent and civil Americans who believe that their country “is not likely to embark upon a campaign to dominate the world in the manner of a Hitler or Napoleon” will be proven wrong.
via The Syrian Conundrum In The Backdrop Of American Lies And Duplicities By Taj Hashmi.