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In 1968, Gary Mitchell was sent to Vietnam where he caught the eye
of his superiors, who found that he excelled at long-distance
shooting. However, this is not just the story of a man at war; it's
also about the war within the man, because the memories of his
sniper missions followed him home and nearly destroyed him.
As correspondent for Newsweek, Michael Hirsh has traveled to every
continent, reporting on American foreign policy. Now he draws on
his experience to offer an original explanation of America's role
in the world and the problems facing the nation today and in the
future.
Using colorful vignettes and up-close reporting from his coverage
of the first two post-Cold War presidents, Bill Clinton and George
W. Bush, Hirsh argues that America has a new role never before
played by any nation: it is the world's Uberpower, overseeing the
global system from the air, land, sea and, increasingly, from space
as well. And that means America has a unique opportunity do what no
great power in history has ever done--to perpetuate indefinitely
the global system it has built, to create an international
community with American power at its center that is so secure it
may never be challenged. Yet Americans are squandering this chance
by failing to realize what is at stake. At the same time that
America as a nation possesses powers it barely comprehends,
Americans as individuals have vulnerabilities they never before
imagined. They desperately need the international community on
their side.
In an era when democracy and free markets have become the
prevailing ideology, Hirsh argues, one of America's biggest
problems will be "ideological blowback"--facing up to the flaws and
contradictions of its own ideals. Hence, for example, the biggest
threat to political stability is not totalitarianism, but the
tricky task of instituting democracy in the Arab world without
giving Islamic fundamentalists the reigns of power. The only way
for Washington to avoid accusations of hypocrisy is to allow the
global institutions it has built, like the U.N., to do the hard
work of promoting U.S. values.
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