By host Tom Ashbrook:
One look at the headlines these days makes you wonder where America’s hyperpower went. The U.S. can’t wrap up Iraq and Afghanistan; can’t rein in Iran; can’t make China trade straight; can’t tamp down Venezuela or Bolivia; can’t even, it seems, control its own borders.
Only yesterday the world, and especially George Bush’s Washington, seemed enthralled with American superpower. Like nothing in history, we were told. A “hyperpower.” And neoconservatives in particular were ready to use it.
Now, the mighty U.S. giant can look mighty pale. Like a paper tiger some days. Toothless.
Hear about what’s happened to America’s power in the world, and where it’s gone.
Guests:
Anatol Lieven, senior fellow at The New America Foundation
James Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine
David Kennedy, professor of history at Stanford University.
