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American Decline Is a Choice. Let's Not Choose It.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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We Don't Want to Be the Global Policemen, We Want to Bring the Troops Home

I feel like it all goes back to the fact that we don't leaders, but we also don't have faith. We don't really believe in the enterprise any more. The british empire become sort of a joke by the 19 thirties. I think, in the same way, ordinary americans,. whether they're populius or not, have a fundamental doubt about American power. successive presidents since george w bush have tried to articulate this issue. Each one of them has tried to say, we don't want to be the global policemen, and we want to bring the troops back home. And Americans basically lap thet although again, it's pretty obvious.

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