Article: Time to rethink realpolitik

Henry Kissinger, once accused of war crimes, is back and working for the Obama adminstration. Is this a sign of American desperation or another example of what Hillary Clinton calls smart power? By Sholto Byrnes

Henry Kissinger, in 1982, wrote: "Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God." The former US secretary of state is an unlikely and unfashionable - source of reassurance, but his injunction is one that the west would do well to follow in the Obama era.

The US National Intelligence Council predicted a bleak future in its most recent Global Trends Review. America's dominance will disappear by 2025, it said, ...

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