“Why this severe decline in our world stature and prestige? Many factors have contributed, of course. Some of them may have been unavoidable. American G.I.’s have belted the world, and soldiers are never a nation’s best ambassadors. Our superior wealth and power may have provoked envy regardless of how we behaved. Perhaps the world simply expected more of us than any nation can provide and we are feeling the backwash of its disenchantment.
“But in the end, such explanations are excuses. The major responsibility for the decline in our world position lies with the way we have conducted our foreign affairs.”
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