[Torie]

I think a fairer characterization of Justin's views might be not that he wants American power to weaken, but rather that he does not want it used, or wants it used far less. Perhaps as a functional matter that ends up being the same thing. Morever, I suppose we would disagree whether a failure to use such power will end up preserving or weakening it as a very consequence of its disuse.

[Justin Raimondo]

We disagree about the sources of American power -- and even the meaning of the word "power," in this context. American power is ideological -- the gains of the American Revolution, our constitutional system, and, most of all, the Bill of Rights -- and economic. As for military power -- tghe Soviets had plenty of that, and where did it get them? In the dustbin of history, along with the Brits, the French (sorry, Bonaparte...), the Germans, the Romans (Holy and pagan), and all the other doomed empires of the past. Empires rise, and then they fall. Yet a republic of freemen might live forever....