The sleeping giant awakes... again.

This article is an interesting counterpoint to the currently popular claims of a new American imperialism.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030804-471194,00.html

"The fact is that since 9/11, when America awoke from its post — cold war end-of-history illusions, the U.S. has not, as most believe, been expanding. It has been moving — lightening its footprint, rationalizing its deployments, rearranging its forces, waking from a decade of slumber during which it sat on its Great Wall, oblivious to its immobility and utter obsolescence. "