Recognizing the limits of American power

Yea and amen to Fred Kaplan:

It's no longer morning in America, but it's not quite twilight either. The next president's big challenge will be to revive America's influence and stature while facing up to the limits of its power in a newly fractured world. And one of the bigger political challenges of that task will be to acknowledge, openly, that our power does have limits.

(Fred Kaplan, "Downsizing our dominance," Los Angeles Times)