The Sunday Review section of the NYT (Oct. 9, 2011, page 1) included a thought-provoking opinion piece by David Rothkopf “Redefining The Meaning of No. 1.” I thought Rothkopf raised several critical considerations regarding what it means to be No. 1 again and I felt compelled to reference his piece in my last blog post. I then set the article aside. Around that time, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a foreign policy address in which he spoke of the 21st century as the American Century. As President, he said, to give definition to this concept, he would also strengthen…
