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U.S. Superpower Debate - Meet the Guests

by Hermela Aregawi @HermelaTV May 28, 2015 5:00PM ET

Former Amb. to NATO Robert Hunter, Hudson Inst.'s Michael Pillsbury & former State Dept official Peter Van Buren, debate

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Ambassador Robert Hunter

Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University 

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO 

Former Director of European and Middle Eastern Affairs at National Security Council 

 

We have the greatest amount of military power. We’re easily number one economically. We have a democracy that works... This clearly is a country whose best future still lies ahead of us.

Amb. Robert Hunter

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Michael Pillsbury

Director, Center on Chinese Strategy, Hudson Institute

Author, "The Hundred-Year Marathon"

Now with the rise of China, more and more of the influence in the world has gone to other powers. We don’t command the kind of authority and influence that we had 70 years ago… having a large military by itself does not make a superpower.

Michael Pillsbury

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Peter Van Buren

Former State Department Official 

Former U.S. Diplomat

Author, "We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People"

 

If you’re talking about a superpower that maintains offshore penal colonies in Guantanamo that set up a worldwide network of kidnapping and torture… You’re arguably not talking about a superpower. You’re talking about a frustrated nation that is lashing out against vulnerable people.

Peter van Buren

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