You forgot handing over Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood and the eventual retaking of Egypt but with no interest in being allied in America after they screwed a 40 year ally.
I’ve seen no evidence over the last 30 years that the East Coast ivy league is capable of producing great leaders and thinkers.
This decay has somewhat mirrored the westward travel of high technology from Route 128 to California. Of course, the producers and wealth-makers can’t rely upon entrenched “old-boy” networks like the political class can - for a while, anyway.