New Year resolutions are made to be broken. So politicians should spare us the customary cascade of empty promises on January 1. There is no harm, though, in drawing lessons from experience. In this spirit, here are a few rules of the road political leaders might usefully ponder as they map a route for 2013.
Make friends and?.?.?.
America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have testified eloquently to the limits of hard power. Military muscle will always matter, but in a world tightly threaded by economic interdependence, making friends and influencing people is every bit as important.
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