A Wounded Giant

Rosa Brooks at Foreign Policy calls America a "Wounded Giant" Critics of Obama's current foreign policy are ignoring some inconvenient truths about the country's decline. "America has become a wounded giant. It's steadily weakening, but it's still strong enough to hurt a lot of people as it flails around," Brooks writes. Part of the nation's foreign policy struggles can be traced back to the myth-building of American international superiority that so many politicians, President Obama included, tend to parrot. "But he won't tell Americans the blunt truths they need to hear: America can't fix Syria. Or Egypt. Or most other places. Americans don't even know how to fix their own problems," Brooks argues. "Thought-provoking!" tweets Phil Williams, a Peabody Award-winning chief investigative reporter for Tennessee's NewsChannel 5. "This is harsh & overstated but gets to some important (if unspoken) truths about USA in 2013, good to ponder a bit," tweets John Schindler, a writer for The XX Committee covering national security issues.