Conservative Case for American Global Leadership Still Strong

America never asked to be a superpower. The nations of the world bestowed that authority on the United States in the wake of World War II, when the great empires lay in ruins and the world turned to America to defeat the emerging threat of global communism.

We were asked to lead, so we did — and the world is better off because of it. Within 50 years, the Soviet menace collapsed under the weight of its own sins, and America stood proudly as freedom’s indispensable nation.

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Tim Chapman

Tim Chapman is the president of Advancing American Freedom.

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America never asked to be a superpower. The nations of the world bestowed that authority on the United States in the wake of World War II, when the great empires lay in ruins and the world turned to America to defeat the emerging threat of global communism.

We were asked to lead, so we did — and the world is better off because of it. Within 50 years, the Soviet menace collapsed under the weight of its own sins, and America stood proudly as freedom’s indispensable nation.