The USA “weighed in the scales”
The birth of a great nations is an exhilarating read. The ascendancy of a nation to “super-power” status is exciting. But the ascendant status is tenuous at best.
National Decline
Americans; A Silly People
As long as the Arabs [or Americans] fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.” T. E. Lawrence ( Lawrence of Arabia)