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His comments about missing longterm trends while focusing on superficial headlines and on the importance of cultural diplomacy merit attention alongside his specific discussion of Saudi Arabia\u2019s influence around the Islamic world. \u00a0America has withdrawn, to a large extent, from engaging in cultural advocacy, perhaps because we\u2019ve lost confidence in our own culture. \u00a0In this context, it\u2019s difficult not to think of the first stanza of William Butler Yeats\u2019s 1919 poem \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d:<\/p>\n
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The falcon cannot hear the falconer;<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The ceremony of innocence is drowned;<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 The best lack all conviction, while the worst<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 Are full of passionate intensity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
And the difficulty that democratic politicians have of thinking and working for the long term \u2014 given that\u00a0they face reelection battles every six, or four, or two years \u2014 is well-known.<\/p>\n
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