America; the reluctant hegemon

Check out Robert Kagan’s ode to American Exceptionalism at Foreign Affairs. The trouble with too many Americans is that their innate modesty often prevents them from seizing the mantle of world leadership that history has bequeathed them.

You’ll recall Kagan as the co-founder of The Project For a New American Century. That effort was launched in ’97, and the “new” American Century at the time was to be the one we’re in now. Nobody pushed harder for new wars on Afghanistan and Iraq than the neocons at PNAC, which resulted in the first twenty years of the new American century being more or less a disaster.

But a new dawn has broken! Time for a reset on American Greatness! With a deep state yes-man in the White House there’s nothing to hold America back from achieving true world mastery!

Except for those cowardly isolationists who have lost faith in America’s mission of world leadership. Buck up, oh ye of little faith! American leadership is not optional. History has granted America not only the ability to impose its will on the world; it has fated the USA with the moral obligation to do so…

There you have it. It’s not that America wants to play global policeman and ceaselessly bully the rest of the planet; it’s a moral obligation.