In Iraq We Must Succeed. Failure Is

One Thing We Know: Things Will Become Even More Destabilized If We Don't Step Up Sino-u.s. Cooperation. If You Want To Envisage A Worst-case Scenario, It Is That Putin Reveals Step By Step The Inner Weaknesses Of The West, Particularly In Europe, And The Chinese See In That An Opportunity For Emulation In The Far East, And Then Step By Step Through A Gradual Process We Will Be Witnessing The Emergence Of Sino-russian Partnership In Favor Of A Drastic Change In The Global Balance Of Power.

If A New President Personalizes A Rather Different Concept Of America And A Different Sense Of America's Mission In The World Than Has Been The Case With President George W. Bush, Then That Almost Automatically Will Help To Improve America's Global Image. But The Tangibles Involving The War And The Economy Are Not Going To Be Easy To Fix.

Arab Nationalism, Which Tended To Be Until Relatively Recent Somewhat Secular In Motivation, Has Now Become Increasingly Religious And Fundamentalist. And That Makes It More Pervasive, More Difficult To Deal With.

For America, The Chief Geopolitical Prize Is Eurasia... Now A Non-eurasian Power Is Preeminent In Eurasia - And America's Global Primacy Is Directly Dependent On How Long And How Effectively Its Preponderance On The Eurasian Continent Is Sustained.

The Scope Of America's Global Hegemony Is Admittedly Great, But Its Depth Is Shallow, Limited By Both Domestic And External Restraints.