The case for David

"We had to destroy the village to save it." This phrase has been attributed to an unidentified soldier during the Vietnam War and has been reproduced in many contexts that have to do with fighting wars, including Iraq. We now need to apply it to the human enterprise we call America. Will we have to dilute a socially responsible U.S.--evolve it, dissolve it, or even destroy it to save a global system that we have created and shaped?

Llewellyn D. Howell, International Affairs Editor of USA Today, is director and senior research fellow, Asia Pacific Risk Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu.

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