America the Beautiful - Is It Now

    We are mighty, powerful, flawed, and... so many other things.

    We send missiles, planes, ships, troops, all over the world. We try to ensure laws and commercial agreements and flows. Money and capital goods need to go where they do.

    China, despite its pretensions and poor human rights with its own people, allows free trade to happen. At least. People and governments deal energy and goods. This is how the economist Adam Smith has described it. The Invisible Hand must keep moving, always.

    We pay more for gas and in so doing we subsidize the bombs, rockets, and troops and materiel that we send to parts known and unknown.

    We are bold, by most estimations, but not necessarily beautiful.

    We commit a lot of errors. We try to do the right things.