The United States needs to learn to function as one power in a complex system that it can neither escape nor dominate. It also needs to view other nations successes in pulling their citizens out of poverty not as a threat but as an opportunity and it needs to ask a lot of questions.

    - Why are we in Afghanistan, Iraq?
    - What we learned from Vietnam?
    - Why is the Palestinian problem not solved?
    - How can we stop large oscillations in our Economies?
    - Why are our friends trusting us less?
    - Why is our infrastructure aging?
    - Why did we export manufacturing to cheaper labor overseas and not imported
       the labor?
    - How much of our large Service Industry can go the way manufacturing did?
    - Why is Health Services and Insurance so expensive?

I can fill a few pages with questions. America certainly has the brains to answer those questions, but not the will to implement the answers.