Ambassador Peter Galbraith, former U.S. diplomat and foreign policymaker, visited the Harris School on Tuesday, November 9 to discuss the Iraq War and other key foreign policy issues. Critical of the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq, Galbraith outlined what he saw as the central failures in the Middle East, and he offered his perspective on how the next administration should move forward.
“Global leadership is about more than just the size of your military or the size of your economy,” he advised. “Leadership depends on people being willing to follow your lead; it is essential that you listen to them. You can only lead people in a direction in which they want to go.” He noted that this strategy of incorporating local perspectives was used successfully in the Balkans in 1993.
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