Enabling Monsters: A Reply to Professor Miller

[...] he calls on the United States to abandon its delusions of grandeur and humbly accept that it can no longer achieve its objectives by wielding hegemonic power.1 According to Miller, the United Stated should pursue instead a policy of "graceful decline" (p. 125). [...] were the United States to decide to nakedly pursue its national interest, as did such past hegemons as the Austro-Hungarians, the Huns, and the Soviets, it would achieve its goals much more efficiently (and terribly).