Is America in decline? Is our global influence waning?
Expect that question to get plenty of airtime as the presidential campaign heats up. According to the Republicans, President Obama's fundamental foreign policy problem is that he thinks America is a fading power and all we can hope for is to "manage the decline."
It's a claim that's long been echoing through the conservative blogosphere, and now the campaign trail. John Bolton, who's joined Mitt Romney's foreign policy team, minces no words: Obama "believes that the role of America in the world is to be a well-bred doormat." Romney (who wrote a whole book on the theme of American greatness) is equally strident: "I reject the view that America must decline." Obama might be inclined to "wave the white flag of surrender," he said, but "God did not create this country to be a nation of followers."
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks-decline-20120201,0,149589.story
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