We Should Have Listened to Jeane Kirkpatrick

We will need to learn to be a power, not a superpower. We should prepare psychologically and economically for reversion to the status of a normal nation.

Thus spake Her Excellency at the end of 1989, quoted dirisively by neocon Joshua Muravchik — After The Fall: 1989, Twenty Years On. The neocon, not surprisngly, deluded by his own propaganda, comes away with thr wrong lessons, and hubristically asseerts that "if there is to be a modicum of peace and security, it will rest on the same bulwark that made possible the great advances for peace and freedom that unfolded in 1989, that is to say, on American power and principle."