Soft Power; the administration's answer for counter-terror

From BLACKFIVE: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/08/soft-power-the-way-for-counterterror-policies.html "[Obama] references the attacks of 9/11 but the 19 men who carried them out came from middle class backgrounds and were almost all educated, employed and connected to the modern world. That was the problem, they abhor what the modern world is all about and wish to shackle the rest of the world to their Islamic paradise."