powerful u.s. which was ready to work with other countries, which is ready to listen, ready to talk and ready to put his views across but open. and that change i think was very good for the u.s. obviously there are those who would object to that sort as a sea of u.s. power, but the rest of the world appreciated the new mood. you write at the very beginning of the book that in your years as secretary-general, i mean, you write generally about the challenge of the united nations in an era of american dominance, right? in your years of secretary-general you found yourself playing the r0e8 of a global interpreter explaining the united states to the world and the world to the united states. what are the things that american government and the american people have the hardest time understanding about the rest of the world? what was hardest to translate? no, there were many situations. for example, i can give you an example.
states turn with the election of barack obama toward a more respectfully multilateralist approach to international affairs is a substantive change, and has it had any unintended consequences? i think it is a substantive change which was appreciated by the world. the rest of the world understands that you have a powerful u.s. which was ready to work with other countries, which is ready to listen, ready to talk and ready to put his views across but open. and that change i think was very good for the u.s. obviously there are those who would object to that sort as a sea of u.s. power, but the rest of the world appreciated the new mood. you write at the very beginning of the book that in your years as secretary general, i mean, you write generally about the challenge of the united nations in an era of
i have seen the light. that would be moderating his position. in this case he is not moderating his position. when the campaign was asked directly about this if this reflects a change they insist that this isn t a change. they re just not describing the position accurately. and i don t actually know what the political corrective is for that. well, we do our fact checks after, you know, after these debates and we pore through the documents. we don t have all that much time. especially after the last debate because the debate went longer than 90 minutes. at least into, you know, our deadline when we went off the air at 11:00 on the network side. you, of course, on msnbc and your colleagues and ezra klein were still doing fact checking. but it tended to be focused on the economic issues and a lot of people didn t get to these reproductive issues. now the foreign policy debate will clearly not be focusing on that although there will be economic, global, economic concerns i think raised b
brutalize your own people, but that now also puts responsibility on those of us outside the country to intervene, to act. but intervention does not necessarily mean use of force. it can be political, diplomatic, economic, fiscal sanctions. and use of force as a last resort. and if we are going to use force, we have to be certain or have a clear idea that it would improve the situation and not make it worse. do you feel like the united states turn with the election of barack obama toward a more respectfully multilateralist approach to international affairs is a substantive change, and has it had any unintended consequences? i think it is a substantive change which was appreciated by the world. the rest of the world understands that you have a
is ready to listen, ready to talk and ready to put his views across but open. and that change i think was very good for the u.s. obviously there are those who would object to that sort as a sea of u.s. power, but the rest of the world appreciated the new mood. you write at the very beginning of the book that in your years as secretary general, i mean, you write generally about the challenge of the united nations in an era of american dominance, right? in your years of secretary general you found yourself playing the role of a global interpreter explaining the united states to the world and the world to the united states. what are the things that american government and the american people have the hardest time understanding about the rest of the world? what was hardest to translate? no, there were many situations.