Some have already been quick to declare the so-called war on terror over:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...war-on-terror/.
Beinart's argument, in short, is that America requires a framework, or a kind of mission statement, in which it can conduct - and justify - its foreign policy. Before the GWOT there was The Cold War, and before that there were a couple of big wars you might remember. The next 'model', according to Beinart anyway, is Rising China and the threat it poses to American hegemony.
Is he correct? Is the global war on terror essentially over? Is American Declinism, vis-a-vis China's emergence, the next 'big thing'?
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