The decline of soft power’s efficacy as a force for good should make Western Europe and those favoring a Europeanized American foreign policy take notice. A Western world denuded of its military capabilities can no longer rely on soft power any more than the League of Nations in the 1930s could provide an effective bulwark against aggressors by simply invoking its name. Unless Europe ceases its headlong rush into disarmament, the halfhearted intervention in Libya may prove to be the swan song of humanitarian intervention, as soft power has been exposed as a poor excuse for its military abdication.
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