The Future of U.S. Power

[Bill Moore]

http://www.weforum.org/videos/networ...nda-councils-0

If the link does not default to the right video, choose the Davos 2014 The Future of U.S. Power video. Recommend starting the video at the 8 minute point. It is a BBC forum about how the U.S. is perceived globally and the future of its power. Is America losing it? The link below is an article about the forum.

(Added) Link is:http://www.weforum.org/sessions/summ...uture-us-power and there is a written summary.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...ithout-america

The Future of American Power

The world wants the protection of American hegemony without American hegemony.

The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland at the end of January. These meetings are often criticized as hotbeds of anti-American effete elites and this one did not disappoint.

One panel which did not receive much press outside of Davos was one entitled, “The Future of U.S. Power.” The major American player on the panel was Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. He was joined by Aleksei K. Pushkov, the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the lower house of the Russian Parliament, former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who now heads the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia.

The following comment is at the heart of the argument, it is about American Exceptionalism, and it is a point that Bacevich would refute vigorously.

America has a global mission because of, not in spite of, its “exceptionalism.” It is a burden and blessing that Americans have borne for centuries, but it is this very duty that defines America as a people, a culture and a civilization. The future of U.S. power will be determined by the promotion or rejection of this calling. It will not be determined by Davos globalization acolytes, Soviet-era philosophy or the fear of American exceptionalism.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Limits-Pow.../dp/0805090169