Sometimes you have to hit bottom before you can realize how far you’ve fallen.  In the eyes of former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, the United States is pretty close to bottom.  John Shaw sketches a fresh portrait of the veteran analyst in the monthly Washington Diplomat.  Brzezinski notes that America is "neither as liked as before, nor as feared as before, nor as respected as before."  To climb up out of the rut we’re in, according to Brzezinski, will require a president who can explain to the American people just how bad things are.  Brzezinski calls this a "totally new era in world history," one that brings us "new global problems . . . on an ominous scale — environment, climate, starvation, inequality — all in the context of a stirred-up and politically awakened mankind that craves dignity."  He just said a  mouthful.  Let’s hope it’s one our next president is capable of saying for himself. -NH

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