To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.
Michael MandelbaumWhile analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
Michael MandelbaumThe less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
Michael Mandelbaum