A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
