That Simon Tisdall is a bit of a B402, i feel. He has written some decent stuff over years but that one is little more that mourning the loss of an America of times past which could never be a reality again. The world is a much more equal one now, and most of all the American electorate is fed up with being directly involved in interminable foreign wars.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”