To understand the behavior of Asian governments, we must see the world through their eyes; this requires changing our focus
In recent weeks, U.S. diplomats and foreign policy experts have expressed surprise at the reluctance of key Asian powers such as Turkey and India to join in their efforts to isolate Iran. Neoconservatives such as former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton and Victor Davis Hanson, military historian and Rumsfeld confidant, are appalled; they say America has gone soft “as it is intent on reaching out to Iran and Syria” and that President Obama’s “generosity” is being reciprocated by ingratitude from Ankara to Beijing:
