[lbo-talk] the CFR worries about decline

[Doug Henwood]

<http://www.cfr.org/publication/22897/tricky_new_american_moment.html>

But it remains unclear whether a diminished U.S. superpower—widely perceived to be in relative decline, its global brand tarnished, its fiscal situation perilous, its body politic internally divided and exhausted from two wars—can still aspire to lead.