Column 132

The world still needs America to lead

Wise men tell Americans that our nation no longer leads this world: We bankrupted ourselves first ideologically through unilateralism, then militarily through "global war," and now financially through the debt crisis. Rising great powers, we are told, now lead the way.

But where do we locate this new leadership? In Europe's self-absorption over its rising Muslim quotient? In Russia's self-inflicted economic penance for its smack down of Georgia? In India's crippling obsession with Pakistan? In China's super-cooling economy and the social unrest it'll trigger? In Japan's ... whatever Japan is doing nowadays?

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