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The FT said that since "the US consensus behind its role on the global stage is weakening," Europeans should no longer be content "to let the US take the lead in handling China."
The two changes are different, of course: the former marks a final succumbing to the relentless forces of the indicative: the weakening of the subjunctive might be regarded as a rejection of the tolerance of uncertainty on the part of the speaker, perhaps a product of the late-20th-century obsession with the facts, resulting in insecurity when faced with doubt, with low probability, or with contrary-to-fact situations.
He thinks the United States, given the way the war was being fought, should have pulled out in 1968, if only to avert the subsequent casualties that, he argues, wound up weakening America's determination to combat Soviet and Chinese communism.
However, before such catastrophic effects, low national saving would probably result in higher interest rates, rising inflation, and the increasing reluctance of foreign investors to lend to a weakening U.S. economy.
After blaming liberals for destroying the United States' expansive optimism and conservatives for weakening Americans' faith in national government, the article says that the country can revive its spirit with a grand national mission.