Is America in Retreat? A Conversation with Bret Stephens




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Summary: <a href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2015/03/18/is-america-in-retreat-a-conversation-with-bret-stephens/"></a>This edition of Liberty Law Talk discusses with the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens his recent book, America in Retreat. Stephens argues that an America which declines to engage globally with its military is accepting a false promise of peace at the expense of rising disorder. The introduction chapter is entitled “The World’s Policeman” where Stephens quotes President Barack Obama’s proclamation in a 2013 speech: “We should not be the world’s policeman.” Similarly, Rand Paul states that “America’s mission should always be to keep the peace, not police the world.” “This book,” says Stephens, “is my response to that argument.”<br> <br> Our conversation focuses on…<a class="moretag" href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2015/03/18/is-america-in-retreat-a-conversation-with-bret-stephens/">Read More</a>