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Case: Considering the information from the link above: give one example of a use of hard power by the US and one example of soft power by the US. How could these two examples be combined into smart power? Be sure to cite sources and not just opinion/anecdote.
You can consider this answer, excerpted from an interview with Joseph Nye

Question: Much of your research over the years has focused on the use of "soft power" on the world stage. More recently you have written on the concept of "smart power." How do they differ, and how can "smart power" be exercised most effectively in these times?

Nye: Effective strategies in the real world are a mix of hard and soft power, and that combination of hard and soft power in effective ways is what I call "smart power." Far too often people think that hard power alone is sufficient. Some people equate soft power with winning over the "hearts and minds" of others, but to be effective you need to use a combination of both hard and soft power. Take, for example, terrorism. We could not use soft power effectively to persuade the Taliban government to give up the sites they used for Al Qaeda and we had to use force, hard power, against the Taliban government.

But when it comes to the broader question of winning over the hearts and minds of the main stream Muslims so that the hardliners cannot recruit them, the situation requires soft power. When we used our hard power in Iraq, we essentially made ourselves look like a bully and an occupier which undercut our soft power. So you find a tremendous drop in the attractiveness of the United States around the world, particularly in the Muslim world, and particularly among mainstream Muslims. We need to recover the ability to combine our soft power with our hard power if we're going to build the capacity to use smart power.