Is America ready to be a superpower?

By William Rusher

In one sense, of course, there is no doubt about it: America is a superpower. In relative terms, the only superpower in the world. Our armed forces dominate the globe. And, in purely economic terms, our power is equally overwhelming.

But I increasingly find myself wondering whether the United States is indeed a superpower in the fullest sense of that word. For one thing (and it is an extremely important thing), in order to be an authentic superpower a nation must want to be one. And there is, it seems to me, increasing evidence that this country, or at least an important segment of its population, simply doesn't want it to be one.

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