Zakaria's guidelines for the US in the 'post-American world'
1 Choose - Choose priorities rather than trying to have it all
2 Build broad rules, not narrow interests - Recommit to international institutions and mechanisms
3 Be Bismarck, not Britain - Maintain excellent relations with everyone, rather than offset and balance emerging powers
4 Order à la carte - Address problems through a variety of different structures (e.g. sometimes UN, sometimes NATO, sometimes OAS)
5 Think asymmetrically - Respond to problems (e.g. drug cartels, terrorists, etc.) proportionately and do not respond to bait (i.e. small attacks meant to draw attention)
6 Legitimacy is power - Legitimacy creates the means to set agendas, define crises, and mobilize support
Smells like terrorism to me. And Muslimism.
