Asian, Mideast Alliances Signal Growing U.S. Weakness

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Global Power: For nearly seven decades since winning World War II, an America trusted by its allies has enjoyed superpower status. Now new alliances in both Asia and the Middle East confirm our steepening decline.

 

Beyond ICBMs and advanced aircraft carriers, will and power are what make a nation a force to be reckoned with.

 

When Argentina invaded the Falklands in 1982, every one of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's civilian advisers told her that "recapture was all but impossible," Charles Moore recounted in his new biography of the Iron Lady.

 

Then Adm. Sir Henry Leach, the First Sea Lord, asked to launch a massive naval task force to take back the islands. When Thatcher asked if they really could succeed, the admiral replied:

 

"We can, and though it is not my place to say this, we must. Because if we don't do it, if we pussyfoot ... we'll be living in a totally different country whose word will count for little."