Increasingly, U.S. policymakers are looking at a more diverse diplomacy that no longer seeks to pick a single winner (and acknowledges silently that the U.S. may no longer be powerful enough to do so), but that attempts to encourage multiple players to prevent the Game being lost.

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But isn't the federalization of pretty much everything in a diverse country like the U.S. just another exercise in imperial overstretch?

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