#56 FOREIGN POLICY FRONT PAGE W/LINKS

The GOP's War on Soft Power by JOSEPH S. NYE Why Is Congress Playing a Dangerous Game with America's Global Influence?
Even the Pentagon Thinks It Has Too Much Money by JOHN NORRIS The Military's Secret Plan to Cut Its Own Budget		Reform School by ELIZABETH DICKINSON The Controversial Boston University Program That Tries to Turn Bad Presidents into Good Professors		The World of Holy Warcraft by JARRET BRACHMAN, ALIX LEVINE How al Qaeda Is Using OnlineGame Theory to Recruit the Masses

PHOTO ESSAYS • LISTS • EXPLAINERS

NATO at War An FP Slide Show
SLIDE SHOW:The Wasteland of Japan's Chernobyl		THE LIST:What Not to Wear: A Look at the Global Fashion Police		FP EXPLAINER:Does a Country Have to Give Permission for the CIA to Spy on It?
FP VOICES: CLYDE PRESTOWITZ AMERICA'S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: IT'S TIME TO BUY GOLD AND MOVE TO NEW ZEALAND READ MORE ON TRADE

FROM THE BLOGS THE CABLE The Quartet Meeting That Never Happened by JOSH ROGIN SHADOW GOVT. Everywhere You Look, Obama Is Retreating by WILL INBODEN STEPHEN M. WALT Who's in? Who's out? Who cares? by STEVE WALT FLIP-CAM WORLD Frontier Investor: 'Buy When There's Blood on the Streets' by PARAG KHANNA ROTHKOPF A World That Doesn't Have to Ask for America's Permission by DAVID ROTHKOPF PASSPORT China Bans Time Travel by JOSHUA E. KEATING

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