U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead

A MERICA IS a remarkable nation. We are, as Abraham /]m Lincoln told Congress in December 1862, a nation jlJL that "cannot escape history" because we are "the last best hope of earth." The president said that his adminis tration and Congress held the "power and . . . responsibility" to ensure that the hope America promised would be fulfilled. Today, 130 years later, Lincoln's America is the sole super power left on earth. Often I wonder what Lincoln would think were he here to