Don't write off America in 21st century

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One of the staples of 2011 punditry has been the “decline” of the United States. See Google’s 190,000,000 results in 0.26 seconds for “U.S. decline in power.”China in particular, pundits say, is about to eat our economic lunch, and all that’s left for us is to figure out how to slide gracefully into irrelevance.

True, the economy isn’t great. That’s in part because the administration failed to invest in the one area of manufacturing that can be done only by American workers who already exist — the defense industry — to replace and upgrade a decade’s worth of spent war materiel. Equally true, the administration is politically and militarily diminishing American leadership.Before you learn Mandarin, please note some storm clouds on China’s horizon and a few rays of sunlight on our own. Americans may have turned the corner on domestic energy, and China’s need for imported energy dwarfs ours.(...)

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