{"id":7,"date":"2006-08-17T06:11:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T10:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-08-17T06:11:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T10:11:16","slug":"cnns-lou-dobbs-its-good-to-be-a-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Lou Dobbs &#8211; It&#8217;s good to be a superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/08\/15\/dobbs.august16\/index.html\">It&#8217;s good to be a superpower<\/a>, by Lou Dobbs, CNN<\/p>\n<p>The Soviet Union, Marxist Leninism, the Evil Empire and their ugly metaphor, the Berlin Wall, crumbled and collapsed almost 17 years ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAt the time, I thought it was strange that the United States didn&#8217;t have the inclination to celebrate. There were no victory parades and no fireworks; nor did Congress declare a V-CW Day, as in Victory in the Cold War. There weren&#8217;t even any grand speeches about America&#8217;s emergence as the World&#8217;s Only Superpower.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBut a grand smugness did grip most of Washington. And hubris became the foundation of almost every national policy, foreign and domestic. And why not? We were entitled as the World&#8217;s Only Superpower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to be a superpower, by Lou Dobbs, CNN The Soviet Union, Marxist Leninism, the Evil Empire and their ugly metaphor, the Berlin Wall, crumbled and collapsed almost 17 years ago. \u00a0 At the time, I thought it was strange that the United States didn&#8217;t have the inclination to celebrate. There were no victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lee-toma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}