America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

I don't say that the West is united, I don't suggest that.