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Just some quick thoughts.
IMO, the discussion is meaningless without a discussion regarding the former Soviet Union and the cold war.
Younger people now really don't get how serious it was and what the stakes were. The Soviets had real plans to isolate the United States with an increasing number of Communist governments which would have had serious repercutions for us and the entire west.
Now the question is, is there a need for a lone superpower?
Personally, I think if we voluntarily left the stage, it wouldn't remain empty for long. China has made real noise about being a superpower while the ultra-right islamists have long pined for a regional Islamic state in the middle east. Right now, I don't see anyone else stepping up to the plate to answer these threats.
I think that the rest of the World bemoans us while they are secretly glad we are around.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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