Threats to America, Washington Times, May 16, 2008
By Bill Gertz
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned in a major speech yesterday that the United States is facing the danger of defeat today similar to Britain in the early days of World War II.
U.S. military, economic and intellectual power is eroding as threats are growing and both Republican and Democrat leaders are deficient, Mr. Gingrich said.
The five “greatest strategic threats” to the country, he said, are China’s rise, a resurgent autocratic Russia, radical Islam, rogue regimes seeking weapons of mass murder, and the growth of an anti-democratic system led by a “bureaucratic international elite.”
The U.S. needs a grand strategy to confront and outmatch all five threats, but noted that “current American efforts are too small, too unimaginative, and too timid.”
“Faced with these large, systemic challenges, the current generation of leaders in both parties are refusing to deal with the scale and the urgency required for continued American prosperity, safety, and freedom,”
Newt Gingrich is chairman of American Solutions which is defined as
a unique non-partisan organization designed to rise above traditional gridlocked partisanship, to provide real, significant solutions to the most important issues facing our country.
Might want to check out Tom Barnett’s Weblog. Barnett has developed one of the better concepts regarding a U.S. grand strategy.
Could not agree more that systemic, bi-partisan solutions are needed — strategies that are at the heart of Quality Leadership. .
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