Is America Losing its Luster?

One look at the headlines these days makes you wonder where America's hyperpower went. The U.S. can't wrap up Iraq and Afghanistan; can't rein in Iran; can't make China trade straight; can't tamp down Venezuela or Bolivia; can't even, it seems, control its own borders.

Only yesterday the world, and especially George Bush's Washington, seemed enthralled with American superpower. Like nothing in history, we were told. A "hyperpower." And neoconservatives in particular were ready to use it.

Now, the mighty U.S. giant can look mighty pale. Like a paper tiger some days. Toothless.

Hear about what's happened to America's power in the world, and where it's gone.

Guests:

Anatol Lieven, senior fellow at The New America Foundation

James Hoge, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine

David Kennedy, professor of history at Stanford University.