Myth America

According to the New Republic, the suddenly optimistic Obama (buoyed by his own boundless self-regard, no doubt) was influenced by an NR piece asserting that American decline is a "myth." (This from a man who believes that Israel can and must negotiate a "peace" deal--a chimera if there ever was one.) But in these days of stratospheric national debt, and the spectre of another Obama term, American decline is, as Mark Steyn and one of the Penn boys might say (or sing), no myth.