Andrew’s Reviews > America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11; The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror > Status Update

“How should America use its power, and against what threats? For some, it was tempting to think the indispensable nation was also the independent nation: The United States might be needed by others, but it did not need others for its own security. . . America might be indispensable, but it was not invulnerable.” (p. 243)