1. Among Very Serious People the real argument for American global hegemony is not freedom or democracy but stability.
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3. I have to confess I used to take the stability argument for American Empire seriously & feared return of inter-imperial rivalries.
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4. Here's the thing, tho: if you look at record of the 21st century, USA empire hardly seems like a pillar of stability. Quite the reverse!
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As recent events have demonstrated, the Very Serious People are wrong. What we're fighting for is not American Hegemony, but democracy.
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So when the stability has gone in America as it has we have lost our role in the world leaving a vacuum which will be filled by the unstable
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