For the whole of my adult working life, the discussions among the American foreign policy elite have had a cartoonish quality, amounting to highly stylized posturing, not remotely approximating the reality of the country’s actual place in the world. This intellectual flabbiness was mitigated by the fact that, because the U.S. was then far and away the dominant force on the planet, it could survive a great deal of analytical error.
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