Albright, Kissinger, and Me

My personal views align more with Kissinger’s world view and disagree with Albright. I recognize the importance of soft power and the use of diplomacy to attract allies, but the idea that with all the different cultures in this world a universal set of morals can exist seems optimistic. Despite my opinions, after reviewing my paper, I found my paper utilized Albright’s logic more so than Kissinger’s. I hinted at some of Kissinger’s ideas in my early drafts noting the downfall of American leadership could be attributed to economic and diplomatic failings brought by US involvement in the Middle East. By the time I arrived at my final draft, many of those ideas had been stripped away and the core of my paper focused not on the conflict itself, but the handling of it so that the blame for weakened US leadership was now on the mismanagement of US power. This mismanagement reflected poorly on the US resulting in the loss of legitimacy which I stated was the basis of US leadership; I believe Albright would agree.