Just FYI, THIS was Obama's speech about his 'Secret Civilian Security Force' at the 16:30 mark.

[zeemike]

7. Well again you might be right, that may well have been what he meant.

But we lost the soft power during Reagan's presidency and it was changed to hard power and we have never went back...and in fact became increasingly a hard power state, where we remain today...and it is hard to make soft power work when we are droning people and torturing and terrorizing them....they will not love us as long as we continue down that path.

Now if we had closed Gitmo, stopped the droning of civilians and suspected terrorist and tried to make peace with the world I would be more hopeful about it...but we did not do it and there is no plan of willingness to do it from our leaders, so colorer me skeptical about any feel good words.