America's claim to be a beacon of freedom in a dark world has been dimmed by Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and the flouting of the Geneva Conventions amid the panicky "unipolar" posturing in the aftermath of September 11th.Now the world seems very multipolar.
The assailants' radicalization proved that we must scale back our military campaigns and take a humbler posture in the world.
But even if the pragmatists prevail in parliament and win the presidency in 2009, Iran's posture in the world might not change.
The Britain independence would create is not about the state and what it does, or a posture in the world out of kilter with economic and political reality.
"The project of the first two years has been to effectively deal with the legacy issues that we inherited, particularly the Iraq war, the Afghan war, and the war against Al Qaeda, while rebalancing our resources and our posture in the world," Benjamin Rhodes, one of Obama's deputy national-security advisers, said.
Much of the damage to America's image, its leadership posture in the world, if not the world economy, is already done.
How does the fact that we now have new postures in the world due to our use of technology, or the fact that "text-neck" is a word, affect how you think through the physical furniture and the placement of that furniture?
In front of a crowd of tech entrepreneurs who these days often seem to be more "inspired" by the potential to make millions than help the world, while posturing in a way that they think reflects Steve Jobs' style — critical and, sometimes, arrogant — Benioff said that they're taking away the wrong message from what they think they know about the former Apple CEO.
In front of a crowd of tech entrepreneurs who Some days often seem to be more "inspired" by the potential to make millions than help the world, while posturing in a way that they think reflects Steve Jobs' style" Benioff said that they're taking away the wrong message from what they think they know about the former Apple CEO.
"The EPA is under a court order that says [greenhouse gases] are a pollutant that fall under their jurisdiction…We need to not ignore the science [but] find ways to solve [environmental] problems in ways that don't hurt the economy, that encourage the development of clean energy in this country, and give us the opportunity to create jobs [while] putting us in a competitive posture around the world".
