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Originally Posted by PostandIn
Obama's application of American soft power in mobilizing the Muslim world to stomp their own snakes plus US military might is paying huge dividends. ISIS is being dismantled, their leaders systematically eliminated, their funding mostly cut off, territory being ceded, all without US combat troops. I don't know what people actually expect.
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I don't think it is necessarily soft power. The US has troops on the ground over there, but they are there to mobilize the Muslim world like you mentioned. But they are very much involved.
Obama's policy is pretty harsh though in terms of projecting military power. Look at what is happening in the South China Sea. The way he handled JSOC.
I think he has done well with what he inherited. And what he inherited was a royal mess.