en in the 1990s, with Bill Clinton and Al Gore in office, the French foreign minister decried the American "hyperpower " while leading intellectual Samuel P. Huntington wrote of a "lonely auperpower," widely hated across the globe for its "intrusive, interventionist, exploitative, unilateralist, hegemonic, hypocriti

ton believed the United States was "indispensable to the forging of stable political relations," and the late Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington thought U.S. primacy was central "to the future of freedom, democracy, open economies, and international order in the world." Journalist Michael Hi