Is the United States a Great Power?

Dave Warms: I don't believe it was the surge that one Iraq I don't think it hurt. It may be helped a little but would really won the war in Iraq was great intelligence work by a number of people on the ground. He says he has sympathy with some elements of the NACON argument about the rot in some of the institutions of American national security, like the FBI. "I worry that this is just this really simplistic notion that the United States can just stop being a great power"