{"id":8,"date":"2008-04-04T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/2008\/04\/04\/america-listens-to-the-world-hah\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T20:18:25","slug":"america-listens-to-the-world-hah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/2008\/04\/04\/america-listens-to-the-world-hah\/","title":{"rendered":"America Listens to the World, Hah!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>In the Jan\/Feb 2008 issue of FP<\/span> (Foreign Policy)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0magazine several political celebrities wrote brief answers to one question: \u201cWhat single policy or gesture can the next president of the USA make to improve America\u2019s standing in the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

One person simply wrote \u201clisten<\/strong>.\u201d He said the highest priority should be to persuade people around the world that we \u201chear them.\u201d\u00a0That answer was given by none other than Newt Gingrich<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>former Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"newtgingrich2.jpg\"<\/a> While I usuallyI don’t agree with his political beliefs, in this instance we have a total meeting of the minds. I love it that he went on to say that the new president, immediately upon being elected, should tour the world just asking questions. He even said: \u201cNot one moment need be spent trying to demonstrate American power and dominance.\u201d What a wonderful, revolutionary idea for 2008.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not only should America listen, but it should talk and negotiate also. This is one of the key themes of Anne-Marie Slaughter<\/a>.\"slaughter.jpg\"<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Slaughter, author of The Idea That is America, <\/em>is Dean of Princeton\u2019s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and who is a talked-about-candidate for the next administration\u2019s Secretary of State, argues that we must return to America\u2019s key principles, one of which is humility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>\u00a0As this picture illustrates, the American\u00a0iPod (& cell phone)\u00a0generation can’t hear what the world is saying at extremely loud volume.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In recent years world opinion of America has soured. That gives us even more reason to learn from other countries by holding them, as well as America, \u201cup to the light\u201d to see inside them at the same time. We start by seeing differences, then extract ways in which we can improve, and appropriate these ideas into our own culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Jan\/Feb 2008 issue of FP (Foreign Policy)\u00a0\u00a0magazine several political celebrities wrote brief answers to one question: \u201cWhat single policy or gesture can the next president of the USA make to improve America\u2019s standing in the world?\u201d One person simply wrote \u201clisten.\u201d He said the highest priority should be to persuade people around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,165,166,1],"tags":[168,5173,5174],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-global-perspective","category-listening","category-uncategorized","tag-american-character","tag-foreign-policy","tag-listening"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}