The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.
The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.
The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.